One wonders what minus one might mean, too… oh. AC, here’s a hint: teeensiest bit dark. And another: got in seconds, but didn’t realize that one actually did, and was puzzled oneself…
What I meant was that some people aren’t even permitted the luxury of the “minus one.” Many people do in fact wake up from sleep every time, and the absence of waking suggested by the “minus one” arrives in a more expeditious form.
“Sleep” to be distinguished, of course, from sudden, bloody unconsciousness.
Fantastic comic, Dorothy. Even though half of it is way above my head, it at least does try to get me to think. The other half is just good readin’ with a nice set of great memorable characters.
Keep it up!
Also one day Cat is gonna talk long enough to flood the world if storm clouds keep appearing when he goes on monologues.
Maybe you don’t wake up every time. Maybe you’re still asleep.
But even then, maybe you’ll wake up tomorrow and realize you’re still in second grade and everything since then has been a dream.
If that happened, I wonder if I would see it as a chance to live my life again better.
It hasn’t happened yet, anyway. But I have had a few dreams in which my memory was reset back to a few years ago, and I had no knowledge of recent times and the people I’ve met during them.
To sleep, perhaps to dream…
Perhaps Cat is worried about the possibility of there not being a minus one event. Every time you go to sleep you wake up, except that final time… unless you do wake up somewhere else? Maybe Cat, like me, would prefer not to have to face the burden of eternaly being (and what dreams may come? arg.) and finds the idea of a final permanent cessation a comfort.
February 2, 2010
So true. Also, I love girl’s expression in the last panel.
Thing that also doesn’t work: Staying up later because tomorrow feels further away.
February 2, 2010
I used to dislike nightmares. Then I woke up out of a good dream.
February 2, 2010
Some people don’t even get the minus one.
February 2, 2010
One wonders what minus one might mean, too… oh. AC, here’s a hint: teeensiest bit dark. And another: got in seconds, but didn’t realize that one actually did, and was puzzled oneself…
February 2, 2010
awww.
February 2, 2010
You’re suicidal. We get it. Great comic.
February 2, 2010
god, I love depression humor.
February 2, 2010
What does this comic even mean?
February 2, 2010
What I meant was that some people aren’t even permitted the luxury of the “minus one.” Many people do in fact wake up from sleep every time, and the absence of waking suggested by the “minus one” arrives in a more expeditious form.
“Sleep” to be distinguished, of course, from sudden, bloody unconsciousness.
February 2, 2010
Incidentally, I love the prolepsis indicated by Girl’s eyes in the first panel. She knows this story even before it happens.
February 2, 2010
Man, stop posting spoilers! Some of us haven’t gotten to sleep yet!
February 2, 2010
I am continually reminded that this is the best comic being made.
February 3, 2010
wow…. I wan tot go back to bed now….
February 3, 2010
You know what I love?
I love
the way that
lately
this comic
has been written
as if
it
was
poetry.
That is what
I love.
February 3, 2010
What a depressing place to end a run
(oh yeah)
Fantastic comic, Dorothy. Even though half of it is way above my head, it at least does try to get me to think. The other half is just good readin’ with a nice set of great memorable characters.
Keep it up!
Also one day Cat is gonna talk long enough to flood the world if storm clouds keep appearing when he goes on monologues.
February 3, 2010
Maybe you don’t wake up every time. Maybe you’re still asleep.
But even then, maybe you’ll wake up tomorrow and realize you’re still in second grade and everything since then has been a dream.
If that happened, I wonder if I would see it as a chance to live my life again better.
It hasn’t happened yet, anyway. But I have had a few dreams in which my memory was reset back to a few years ago, and I had no knowledge of recent times and the people I’ve met during them.
February 4, 2010
What’s so depressing about this? Sleep is excellent. Waking up is terrible, especially when you’re not allowed to immediately go back to sleep.
February 9, 2010
To sleep, perhaps to dream…
Perhaps Cat is worried about the possibility of there not being a minus one event. Every time you go to sleep you wake up, except that final time… unless you do wake up somewhere else? Maybe Cat, like me, would prefer not to have to face the burden of eternaly being (and what dreams may come? arg.) and finds the idea of a final permanent cessation a comfort.
June 7, 2010
Perhaps I missed the point, but it struck me as Minus One more thing Girl thought was good in the world.
June 11, 2010
And the moral of the story is… when you sleep, you can’t catch mosquitos, so they bite you in your sleep!
February 16, 2011
I have lived and I have loved
I have waked and I have slept
I have sung and I have danced
I have laughed and I have wept
And all these things but two things
Were emptiness and pain;
And love, it was the best of them
And sleep, worth all the rest of them
~attr. Charles Mackay
October 10, 2013
I hope one day to -1 peacefully. Ways to go yet, things to do, dogs to pet, comics to read…