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Last modified at: 2011-03-29 14:33:35
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Panel 1
Locations:
  THE HOUSE (Living room)  
  Living Room (In Gramp's chair)  
Props:
  Chair (Gramp sitting in chair)  
  Lamp  
Characters:
  GRAMP (reading)  
1: ARTHUR (sitting on a lamp, talking to Gramp, thought occuring): Seriously? Moby Dick is the greatest novel in the English language?? Seriously?
Panel 2
Locations:
  THE HOUSE (Living room)  
  Living Room (In Gramp's chair)  
Props:
Characters:
1: ARTHUR (sitting on a lamp, talking to Gramp, thought occuring): It goes on for 40 pages about how sails are tied! I mean, jeez. I GET IT. It's symbolism and metaphor. But ain't nobody wantin' to read 40 pages of THAT.
Panel 3
Locations:
  THE HOUSE  
  Living Room (In Gramp's chair)  
Props:
  Chair (Gramp sitting in chair)  
  Lamp  
Characters:
1: GRAMP (talking to Arthur): Lots of people want to read that!
2: ARTHUR: Are you joking? Six doctoral candidates at Yale want to read that!! And everyone else checks out. I bet even MELVILLE checked out.
Panel 4
Locations:
  nonspecific (white background)  
Props:
Characters:
1: Herman Melville (Writing): "And the sail is tied ever thusly: Over, under, over, under, left, right, over, under..."
2: Herman Melville (Thinking): Good Lord

 

 

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