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| date      = October 21, 2005
 
| date      = October 21, 2005
 
| title    = Light
 
| title    = Light
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A03%20pm-,Friday%27s%20Drawing,-(3%20Comments Original title</span>]: '''Friday's Drawing'''</big></big>
 
 
| image    = light.jpg
 
| image    = light.jpg
 
| titletext = Like a beacon
 
| titletext = Like a beacon
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This was the twenty-second comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[44: Love]], and the next one was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]].
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Lighthouses were built on coasts to give ships a point of reference where land was, so that they could find where they were going, and to know where they should avoid during a storm. [[Megan]] fills this role for [[Cueball]]. She is his lighthouse to know where he can be safe.
  
Beacons, often in the form of lighthouses, were built on coasts to give ships a point of reference where land was, so that they could find where they were going, and to know where they should avoid during a storm. In the comic, [[Megan]] fills this role for [[Cueball]]: she is his beacon to know where he can be safe. This also has a romantic notion, as Megan is lighting up the world for Cueball to find her.
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This also has a romantic notion, as Megan is lighting up the world for Cueball to find her.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
This used to be one of the [[Footer comics|footer comics]] featured in the bottom segment of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
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*This was the 22nd comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
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**The previous was [[44: Love]].
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**The next was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]].
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*Original title: "Friday's Drawing"
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*There was no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic.
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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 or graphing paper]].
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 22]]
[[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 22]]
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[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
 
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

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