429: Fantasy
Revision as of 01:53, 27 August 2013 by 184.66.160.91 (talk) (The fourth wall refers to performances, not imagined worlds. They imagined characters are destroying their irrational universe)
Fantasy |
Title text: I guess if she accepted irrational realities, she'd hardly be my fantasy. |
Explanation
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The title text refers to the fact that Cueball would only appreciate a girl who refused an irrational reality, thus the fantasy is consistent with his personality.
Transcript
- [Cueball sits hugging his knees.]
- Cueball: If only there were some way we could be together.
- [He fades into a thought bubble containing the next four panels.]
- [Cueball and Megan are lounging on a bed.]
- Megan: We're so lucky to have each other. How did it happen, anyway?
- Cueball: I, uh... I don't remember.
- Megan: No, really, how did we get together? It's hard to imagine it happening.
- Cueball: It does strain the bounds of fantasy...
- Megan: ...Fantasy? That's it!
- Megan: My God, it's the only explanation: We're objects in some transient fantasy. We'll be gone when it ends!
- Cueball: We'll lose each other.
- Megan: Oh God.
- [Megan leaps from the bed with a flaming torch.]
- Megan: Well, I'm not going out quietly. I'm burning this fucking world.
- Cueball: Burn the world!
- Megan: Fire! Fire! Cleanse this hellish place-
- [The thought ends.]
- Cueball (scratching his head): ??
Discussion
I think the "impossible" part is not their relationship, but the fact they don't remember how it happened. -- Hkmaly (talk) 23:52, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- Any particular impossibility is not explained, but I believe it is implied in Cueball's first sentence "If only there were some way we could..." implying that there is no way that they could. Brettpeirce (talk) 13:47, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
It seems like an important distinction that in the comic Megan wonders how but the description says she wonders why. The comic doesn't actually give us a reason why they cannot be together- it could be ling distance just as easily as unrequited love. Bbruzzo (talk) 18:23, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Ive always thought this comic bears some similarities to Jorges Luis Borges' short story, The Circular Ruins