Wall-1

Five-frame cartoon. Frame 1: Bespectacled editor is chiselling away at a literal wall made up of text. A child wearing a baseball cap stands next to an adult. The child says, “Grandpa, who’s that?” The man says, “Why, that’s Old Dame Editor.” Frame 2: The child says, “What’s she doing?” The man says, “Well, my boy, she’s chipping away at the infamous impenetrable wall of text.” Frame 3: The man continues, “Every day for the past twenty years, she’s been coming to this very spot, using a sharp stick to dislodge nominalizations and loosen turgid prose.” Frame 4: The child says, “But why?” The man says, “Legend has it that behind that wall is the essence of human knowledge.” Frame 5: The man says, “Trying to get to that pure nugget of truth has been her life’s passion. Concerned friends and neglected family have called it an obsession.” To be continued…

2 thoughts on “Wall-1”

Anne Brennan says:

July 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm

I can’t wait for part 2! That a cliffhanger! 😉

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Anne Brennan says:

July 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm

Damn. I mean WHAT a cliffhanger!

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