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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The 911 operator references {{w|Allegory of the Cave|Plato's cave}}. This is a reference to an allegory by {{w|Plato}} in which he creates a world in which prisoners are chained against a wall and know only the shadows that cross the wall and how they create their own reality from those shadows. They would create words for the things they were seeing, but that would only correspond to the shadows and not the physical things themselves. | |
− | + | [[Cueball]]'s brain seems to be unaware it is in his body, and is freaked out by the fact that all the information it receives is through Clueball's sensory organs. The brain has no means of verifying that the information received from the senses indeed corresponds to the actual outside world, and is thus in Plato's cave. | |
− | The title text | + | The title text continues with the Plato's cave as [[Randall]] is saying that {{w|Socrates}}, Plato's teacher, should have just gone into the cave and brought the prisoners out instead of dealing with the extended allegory. The tranq gun is for the prisoners, so they don't completely freak out while being taken out of the cave. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball is on | + | :[Cueball is on the phone.] |
:Cueball: Hello? 911? I'm trapped! | :Cueball: Hello? 911? I'm trapped! | ||
:Cueball: It's dark and I can't see anything except these two distorted splotches of light! | :Cueball: It's dark and I can't see anything except these two distorted splotches of light! | ||
:Cueball: Help! | :Cueball: Help! | ||
− | :[ | + | :[The 911 operator is in an office, wearing a headset.] |
:Ponytail: Splotches of light? Your... eyeballs? | :Ponytail: Splotches of light? Your... eyeballs? | ||
:Cueball (over phone): I think that's what they are! There's meat everywhere! | :Cueball (over phone): I think that's what they are! There's meat everywhere! | ||
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:Ponytail: ...so you're a brain. | :Ponytail: ...so you're a brain. | ||
:Cueball (over phone): Yes! | :Cueball (over phone): Yes! | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
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