Comic #4220: black-swan

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Nassim Taleb wrote this famous book called 'The Black Swan.'"

Panel 2: Person 2: "The idea is that seemingly impossible things happen pretty frequently."

Panel 3: Person 1: "For instance, you could write a whole book based on a single well-known concept and have it turn out to be a bestseller."

Panel 4: Person 2: "PFFT. What are the odds of that?"

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