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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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{{w|Daft Punk}} was a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronic music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss". '{{w|The Tell-Tale Heart}}' is a short story by {{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}, in which the narrator tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is referenced again in the later comic [[2344: 26-Second Pulse]].
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Daft Punk is a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronica music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss." 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which the narrator tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards.
  
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[[Cueball]] narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. (Having to outsmart a band named {{Wiktionary|daft|Daft}} Punk is quite ironic.) He says he has been haunted by the sound of the band's beats.
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In the comic, [[Cueball]] narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. He says he has been haunted by the sound of Daft Punk's beats.
  
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In the title text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity. The line, "You fancy me mad," comes directly from The Tell-Tale Heart. He then insinuates that he will kill Roderick Usher's band; Roderick Usher was a character in '{{w|Fall of the House of Usher}}', another story by Edgar Allan Poe, making puns on 'house' and 'trance', genres of electronic music (the character of Madeline Usher in the story suffers from catalepsy, frequently falling into trances).  The title-text is also a pun on {{w|Usher (musician)|the musician Usher}}; although Usher does not have his own band, one of his best-selling albums was titled ''{{w|Confessions (Usher album)|Confessions}}'', appropriate to the themes of Poe.
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In the title text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity. He then insinuates that he will kill Roderick Usher's band. Roderick Usher was a character in 'Fall of the House of Usher,' another story by Edgar Allen Poe, in which a man named Roderick Usher dies. The comic and title text mix realities between Poe stories and house music bands, further showing the narrator to be crazy.
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The title text mentions techno music, which is the subject of [[411: Techno]] and is also mentioned in [[586: Mission to Culture]].
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[The three panels show portions of a single scene. Although the characters are still stick figures, the artwork style is heavily crosshatched and shaded.]
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:The three panels show portions of a single scene. Although the characters are still stick figures, the artwork style is heavily crosshatched and shaded.))
 
:[In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a bookshelf.]
 
:[In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a bookshelf.]
 
:Ever since I murdered Daft Punk
 
:Ever since I murdered Daft Punk
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{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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[[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]
 
 
[[Category:Music]]
 
[[Category:Music]]

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