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Saturday, May 28, 2011

West of Bathurst 882

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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Panel 1: In the title panel of this Sunday-style colour comic, we see a replication of Plato's cave. Rahim sits in front of a fire, watching Barbara hold up the words "West of Bathurst." A low wall separates Barbara and Marie, the latter of whom has a shackle around her ankle. Marie is gazing at another wall, onto which the shadow of the words is being projected.

Panel 2: Marie, Barbara, and Rahim are having dinner in a restaurant.

Marie: Oh, hey: the end of the world was supposed to happen last weekend.

Barbara: Didn't it?

Panel 3:

Marie: Uh...

Barbara: How can we be sure it didn't? Maybe this conversation is an illusion.

Panel 4: Rahim plucks a dill pickle off his plate.

Barbara: Maybe we've never existed at all.

Rahim: In which case this pickle is especially cruel.

Panel 5:

Rahim: I love pickles. What if I'm actually not eating a pickle that isn't real because the world not only didn't end last Saturday but was never here in the first place?

Barbara: In which case your disappointment is also illusory.

Panel 6:

Barbara: It's possible this is all happening entirely inside Marie's head.

Rahim: If her head exists, which I doubt.

Panel 7:

Barbara: You ate the pickle! That's philosophically problematic.

Rahim: Albeit tasty.

Marie: I think you should know that I plan never to introduce a topic of conversation again.

Alt-Text: Sometimes, you toss what you think is a casual observation into what has so far been a harmlessly ordinary conversation, only for it, and you, to be engulfed in the Black Hole of Nonsense. It's fun when that happens, if slightly disconcerting.

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