Comic #4664: make-love

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Up until the 1940s or so, the phrase 'make love' just meant doing romantic stuff. Then, it got crowded out by the meaning 'to have sex.'"
• Character 2: "What's cool is it retroactively makes old novels filthy!"

Panel 2:

• Character 2: "Two Victorian characters go into a park and 'make love.'"
• Character 1: "Huh."

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "See how powerful language is? We can turn prudish media filthy!"
• Character 2: "Okay. So?"

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "We can do the opposite too! We can take filth from today and make it weirdly nice!"

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "And that's why, from now on, I'm using the F-word to describe the act of making cupcakes."

Panel 6:

• Character 2: "Several generations hence…"
• Caption: "Why are David Mamet's characters so concerned with baking?"

This captures the comic's dialogue and context accurately!