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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | It is frequently stated that liquids take the shape of their container. While being poured, though, what that "shape" is | + | {{incomplete|Created by a cup, or possibly a bottle. Maybe even a teapot. Should be expanded upon. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | It is frequently stated that liquids take the shape of their container. While being poured, though, what that "shape" is opens to interpretation. The comic shows the "shape" of a liquid being "poured" down someone's throat (in the process of drinking), and highlights how unsettling this may look without any visible guidance for its flow. | ||
− | The title text expands on this, encouraging the reader to think of the liquid travelling through the entire {{w|Human digestive system|human digestive tract}} and to consider that it will eventually dilute through the entire human body ("shaped like me"), with what doesn't leaving the body to pass through the water treatment process ("some pipes and tanks"), and | + | The title text expands on this, encouraging the reader to think of the liquid travelling through the entire {{w|Human digestive system|human digestive tract}}, and to consider that it will eventually dilute through the entire human body ("shaped like me"), with what doesn't, leaving the body to pass through the water treatment process ("some pipes and tanks"), and finally most particles from any ingested liquid will mix with all water on Earth ("all of Earth's oceans"). But by the time a beverage is diluted enough to take the shape of Earth's oceans, the molecules will be so dispersed that the beverage effectively becomes invisible. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Inside a single frame, liquid pouring out of a glass through mouth, the esophagus, and to the stomach is shown. | + | :[Inside a single frame, liquid pouring out of a glass through mouth, the esophagus, and to the stomach is shown. The surrounding bodies like the organs or the glass are not pictured and only visible by its shape. Further two small organs with no connection to the rest are also wetted.] |
:[Caption below the frame:] | :[Caption below the frame:] | ||
:It freaks me out to imagine what a beverage is shaped like when I’m in the middle of drinking it. | :It freaks me out to imagine what a beverage is shaped like when I’m in the middle of drinking it. | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | * | + | *A similar imagery is used in the 2000 film {{w|Hollow Man}}. |
− | *Radiotopia's recently released [https://www.everythingisalive.com/about | + | *Radiotopia's recently released [https://www.everythingisalive.com/about "Everything is alive"] podcast's premiere episode, [https://www.everythingisalive.com/episodes/louis-can-of-cola Louis Can of Cola], features a discussion of between the beverage and the host who {spoiler alert} drinks the beverage during their discussion. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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