2012-08-16

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2012-08-16

Title text: 2012-08-16

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[Panel 1: A girl talking to her father in a green void.]

Girl: Daddy? Say I had surgery... And say, halfway through, the anaesthesia wore off, and I woke up and started screaming.

[Panel 2]

Girl: So, then the doctors give me a sedative to calm me down then I wake up after surgery and I don't remember any of it.

[Panel 3]

Girl: If I don't remember, but it definitely happened... who suffered?

[Panel 4]

Father: Oh, that's easy. There's no such thing as a persistent you!

Girl: So... The me from surgery is dead?

[Panel 5: The girl smiles as her father hugs her.]

Father: Sweetie, no! No, not dead.

[Panel 6]

Father: The "you" from surgery never existed. Your brain was just representing a "you" for convenience. Like it is right now.

[Panel 7]

Father: But don't feel bad! That old representation got to experience the extremes of emotion and sensation for its entire existence/ I mean. :What's this representation of you going to experience?

[Panel 8: The girl stands alone in the frame against a black background, frowning.]

[Panel 9: Back to a green background.]

Girl: I thought... Maybe... This representation of me would spend today eating pudding and watching cartoons.

Father: Well, I hope that's fulfilling

[Panel 10: The girl and her mother, now against a violet background.]

Caption over panel: Later

Girl: It's all a farce.

Girl's Mother: What did your father say to you?

Girl: "Father" doesn't exist.

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