The years go by.
Cohen: I hope you don’t mind that I brought my Being along.
Eeeexcellent. I think I’ll put it in my front hall.
I hope you don’t mind that I brought my Being along.
Lackey: Boss? It’s a Jessica Lake. You said you’d take her call today?
Cohen: Oh, right.
Stu: Hey, Jess. How are you doing?
Uh-huh . . .
. . . what?
What do you mean, “malignant”?
So does this count as karmic for Cohen?
Given that Jessica is the one dying, no, no it does not.
That’s what I meant. He wanted NOTHING to do with his child’s life, and never had the guts to actually make a life with Miranda. So, the one he loves gets cancer, and the child is now his.
I think the point is that Jessica’s cancer is mostly relevant to her and her own life. So if you reframe it to be a punishment for Cohen, it’s like you’re treating her as just a plot device in his story, rather than a character with needs and feelings of her own.
I did it again didn’t I.
Yes exactly
The media does a lot to train us to see certain people’s stories (usually the white, male, and/or straight people) as the only ones that matter.
(My go-to example: in Star Wars, Darth Vader’s whole redemption arc focuses entirely on how his son forgives him and insists on perceiving him as good. There’s no mention whatsoever of how his daughter feels about all this. Even though his daughter is the one whose entire planet he demolished while forcing her to watch.)
So unlearning that perspective is a process. Don’t get discouraged just because you don’t get it right all at once.
That was a rather Burnsian (no, not Robert) “eeeexcellent” with the four E’s.
Wait, does that mean Miranda has sisters?
No, that’s Patrick.
No, just friends her own age that come over to play.
… Occam’s razor has foiled my assumptions once again.
I guess when one sees Beings often enough, one starts assuming *everyone* is a Being….
Oh dang
I was kind of hoping the chapter would end without covering this bit again.
Fuck cancer.
Wait….Miranda had FRIENDS?!
Actually, it was Grand Moff Tarkin who ordered the destruction of Alderann ( you know the part played by Peter Cushing)?
The C. Montgomery Burns “Eeeexcellent”