Comic #6989: the-rub

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Panel 1:
Person 1: Sometimes I wish you could just get Shakespeare in plain modern language, so you can tell what’s going on.
Person 2: Are you crazy? Have you read this stuff?

Panel 2:
Quotation from Shakespeare:
“To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.”

Panel 3:
Person 1: Do you know what “the rub” is? It’s a lumpy patch in a game called bowls.
Person 2: So, rephrasing, it’s something like “Sure, I could end my suffering with death, but the real bump in the bowling alley is maybe after death everything sucks too.”

Panel 4:
Person 3: Wow, archaism and complexity are doing some important work.
Person 4: He literally wrote a whole sonnet about his dick and nobody notices.

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