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WCDT Strips 3451-3455 (3rd to 7th April 2017)
Storel:
--- Quote from: Akima on 08 Apr 2017, 14:06 ---"Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From the dealer's lot that is our home."
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What exactly are you quoting here, Akima? I haven't seen it before, but I like it. Although the "dealer's lot" part puzzles me; is this a paraphrase of something?
Edit: Aha, should have googled it before I asked. Googling "trailing clouds of glory" brought me immediately to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth. The original version of the relevant part:
--- Code: ---Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home
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Neat -- thanks Akima!
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Apr 2017, 22:58 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 06 Apr 2017, 20:57 ---In QC, though, there haven't been any failures for life to happen between.
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How big does a failure have to be to qualify? Dora driving Marten to break up with her was a failure; Faye drinking herself out of a job was a failure; Sven failing to live up to Faye's expectations was a failure. Even QC isn't all fluffy clouds and bunny rabbits!
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Those are all very old, though. The most recent one you're mentioning happened two years ago. (Or 550 comics, if you prefer.) The only real failures I can think of since then are Faye drinking once, and Claire's horrible attempt at setting up Clinton with Emily.
Continued in a moment, first I want to insert this quote:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 08 Apr 2017, 00:05 ---Recently we had a rather nasty bit of fail when Bubbles' memories turned out to be gone, meaning she'd spent the last few years in indentured servitude for nothing.
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See, the problem is, that's not an actual failure. There's a big distinction between 'Something bad happened' and 'Our characters failed'. That wasn't a nasty bit of fail - Faye and Bubbles got everything that they needed to succeed, handed to them on a silver platter, and have been blindly stumbling upward.
It's specifically since the start of the creepybot arc that I've seen this. I'd hoped that once the arc was over, that would be that, but Faye and Bubbles continue to not have to struggle with anything.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2017, 18:34 ---Gyrre, there was a time that some argued that Between Failures was a QC ripoff...
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Then you might find it funny to know that I learned about QC through Between Failures.
Jackie has made mention of it (and Jeph) and linked it in the author's commentary below the comics a few times.
BenRG:
Just to let everyone know that I'll be leaving this poll open (as it is plot- rather than time-limited). I'll be interested to see if we get more than forty-four members voting (that seems to be the typical number of users we have voting on these polls most week).
Just a heads-up: I don't have any ideas for a poll this week. If someone else wants to do next week's WCDT, please be my guest.
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