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From the Archives: Trickle Down Theory

by Seraphine Khorana on June 30th, 2011
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From the Archives: Trickle Down Theory

For the next couple of weeks, I am re-releasing some old comics from a few years ago at the rate of one-a-day until July 1st.

1. Kansas. In 2008, I went to Kansas to visit my husband’s family.
2. The Sunflower State. I didn’t know what to expect. It was everything I had expected and more– including a tornado! Stay tuned.
3. What’s in Kansas? Kansas was a complete unknown to me.
4. Tornado Alley. I knew Kansas was famous for tornados, I just didn’t really expect to be in one.
5. Cawker City: Home to the World’s Largest Ball of Sisal Twine. The day started out, um, normally…
6. Rain Tornado. A rain tornado is one you can’t see, because of rain and darkness, until it hits you.
7. Tornado Shelter. The more doors you can put between yourself and the tornado, the better.
8. Tornado in Manhattan Kansas. It destroyed the True Value Hardware store. The K-State campus nuclear reactor wasn’t damaged.
9. Tornado in Chapman, Kansas. Everything you know can change in a matter of minutes.
10. Kansas Flip-flops. I found people from Kansas to be generous, practical and unpretentious.
11. Prairie Cathedrals. Parts of Kansas are so featureless that one often uses non-geographic landmarks for navigation.
12. Toilet Alley. Everyday life can sometimes seem rather dull.
13. Deja Vu. Everyday life can sometimes seem rather dull, without surprises.
14. Driving and Sex. This is my friend Dani’s favorite Encore Seraphine comic.
15. The Pretty Girl. Losing one’s confidence is a horrible feeling.
16. Trickle Down Theory. Ultimately, everything trickles down whether we like it or not.

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Timeless Watches

by Seraphine Khorana on November 17th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Timeless Watches

If you push any button long and hard enough, eventually it’s going to go out of order. Whatever you are pushing will stop (which isn’t completely true, because everything moves according to its volume, pressure, rotation and vibration; there are always internal degrees of freedom). A watch that can stop time is theoretically possible (inasmuch as anything is possible “in theory”) –and I want one. I want a watch that can create time by stopping the universe at my whim and leisure. At first, I’d be content with just one more hour of sleep, but eventually I’d tack on another hour for wakey-time. Pretty soon, I’d be up to 48-hour days and 48-month years and 48-year decades. I’d have time to work and finish my studies. I’d have time to be with friends. I’d talk to my family. I would use the same tea bag over and over until the string finally breaks. I’d make daily comics. I’d do something with my hair. I would become more generous. In the natural order of things, I’d be the one pushing the damn buttons (instead of the other way around).

And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II

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Mot du jour: Contiguous

by Seraphine Khorana on March 22nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Mot du jour: Contiguous

Word of the Day: Contiguous. It means to have contact with, or to be adjacent. It is the opposite of being fragmented or scattered.
When all of your thoughts are touching, it is called Logic. The problem is thoughts jump all over; we don’t have contiguous thoughts. Therefore, we mentally reorder our thoughts until they begin to make sense. In this manner, we build a reasonable case for ourselves based on a kind of false logic. Tragically, the result is we don’t know how stupid, or average, we really are. We can only guess.
In a moment of clarity, everything (and nothing) is readily apparent.

The cathedral towers and the full gables of the quaint old houses were just beginning to blush in the sunrise. There had been no rest for her that night. She was still in her pretty ball-dress, her fair hair hanging somewhat out of curl on her neck, and the circles round her eyes dark with watching. “What a fright I seem,” she said, examining herself in the glass, “and how pale this pink makes one look!” So she divested herself of this pink raiment; in doing which a note fell out from her corsage, which she picked up with a smile, and locked into her dressing-box. And then she put her bouquet of the ball into a glass of water, and went to bed, and slept very comfortably.
Quotation from William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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People Drive the Same Way They Have Sex

by Seraphine Khorana on July 20th, 2009
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People Drive the Same Way They Have Sex

Sex Drive 101: Do you think courteous drivers make better lovers?

My favorite use of condoms was in ‘Montana Sky,’ when Tess goes to seduce Nate at his desk and he’s kind of like, ‘Well, you know, I’m not prepared,’ and she pulls out like twenty of them, and he doesn’t know whether to be flattered or afraid.
Nora Roberts, as quoted in The New Yorker magazine

I am the very pink of courtesy.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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Credibility Estimation: Love is…

by Seraphine Khorana on February 16th, 2009
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Credibility Estimation: Love is…

I know I’m blind. I assume others are blind too. That’s why nature gave us feelers.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Quotation from Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi

I am glad ’tis night, you do not look on me,
For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice

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