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| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| title    = Landscape (sketch)
 
| title    = Landscape (sketch)
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Landscape,-Don%27t%20ask%20me Original title</span>]: '''Landscape'''</big></big>
 
 
| image    = landscape_cropped_(1).jpg
 
| image    = landscape_cropped_(1).jpg
| titletext = There's a river flowing through the ocean<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A35%20pm-,Landscape,-Don%27t%20ask%20me Original caption</span>]: Don't ask me why there's a river running through the ocean. Please.
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| titletext = There's a river flowing through the ocean
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This was the second comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class)]], and the next one was [[3: Island (sketch)]]. It was among the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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This comic does not present a particular point; it is just a picture drawn by Randall.
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There is a joke in the title text that a river, made of water, is flowing through the ocean, which is also made of water.
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It is also worth noting that the sketch, when flipped vertically, maintains the appearance of having the sea on the bottom and sky on top, although the setting sun is on the wrong part of the horizon.
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Similar to {{w|Relativity (M. C. Escher) | works of M. C. Escher}}, this picture takes visual components of a typical scene and combines then in ways that appear to work well on a small scale, but would never combine that way in real life and do not make sense in the larger context of the image.  The clouds are casting shadows on the sky.
  
 
[[File:Flipped sketch.jpg|thumb|Flipped sketch]]
 
[[File:Flipped sketch.jpg|thumb|Flipped sketch]]
This comic does not present a particular point, it's just a picture drawn by Randall. The sketch, when flipped vertically, maintains the appearance of having the sea on the bottom and sky on top, although the setting sun is on the wrong part of the horizon. Similar to {{w|Relativity (M. C. Escher) | works of M. C. Escher}}, this picture takes visual components of a typical scene and combines then in ways that appear to work well on a small scale, but would never combine that way in real life and do not make sense in the larger context of the image. The clouds are casting shadows on the sky.
 
 
In the title text, Randall jokes that there is a river flowing through the ocean. The lighter part in the center of the drawing appears to be the Sun's reflection off a body of water, thus indicating that this feature is ocean, yet the forked and meandering line features to the left look like a river system flowing through the very same landscape. The similar but more singular line to the right could be coastline, one side water, the other land but, because of the conflicting interpretations, it doesn't make much sense to identify the central/foreground surface as either land or sea.
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[There is text from the checkered paper at the top:]
 
:[There is text from the checkered paper at the top:]
 
:From Page No.__
 
:From Page No.__
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==Trivia==
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*This was the 2nd comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
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**The previous was [[7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class)]].
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**The next was [[3: Island (sketch)]].
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*Original title: "Landscape"
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*Original [[Randall]] quote: "Don't ask me why there's a river running through the ocean. Please."
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*This was one of the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|thirteen first comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on Friday September 30, 2005.
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*This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
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**It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
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**The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.
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*One of the original drawings drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]].
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 02]]
[[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 02]]
 
 
[[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 02]]
 
[[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 02]]
[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Sketches]]
 
[[Category:Sketches]]
 
[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 
[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]

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