Tuesday, October 19, 1999: Golda Meir and Prozac
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:35 am

Ozy's got an... odd habit of randomly shouting quotes, doesn't he?
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A friend told me she though this strip was really sad, and I guess it is, but I didn't know it was when I was writing it. I think I was just reflecting on the fact that we'd lose something essential to the human (if you'll pardon the expression) experience if we artificially eradicated sadness.
Does that mean we might gain humanity by boosting sadness?DCS did say that she liked to insert stuff like this to be more cultured than those comics making video game references.
A friend told me she though this strip was really sad, and I guess it is, but I didn't know it was when I was writing it. I think I was just reflecting on the fact that we'd lose something essential to the human (if you'll pardon the expression) experience if we artificially eradicated sadness.
The way she gives him a blank stare seems to suggest otherwise.I always assumed they were talking and Ozy just said the quote because he thought it made sense to the conversation or it was a particularly good nugget of wisdom.
Strikes me as a bit counter-intuitive to go out of your way to say "Hey I'm cultured!" by adding in really hamfisted references for the express purpose of proving how cultures you are.DCS did say that she liked to insert stuff like this to be more cultured than those comics making video game references.
But the blank stare is just a silent beat (is that the correct phrase?), she answers him afterwards.The way she gives him a blank stare seems to suggest otherwise.I always assumed they were talking and Ozy just said the quote because he thought it made sense to the conversation or it was a particularly good nugget of wisdom.