CHARLOTTE I thought you were going to go pick up some milk.
REYNARD Oh, I'll go in a couple of minutes. Just a few
more pages. Hyuk heh hee! Funniest stuff I ever
did see! Snk! Hee hee!
CHARLOTTE Why are you laughing?
REYNARD Oh, I'm just reading through a collection of Krazy
Kat comics I found in your bookshelf. 'Bout time
you lightened up a little. This stuff is great,
isn't it? That Herriman guy was a genius.
CHARLOTTE Oh I agree. Herriman is certainly a genius. But
I never really thought of the Krazy Kat comics as
funny.
REYNARD Oh, what then?
CHARLOTTE I always found them to be a surreal and poignant
commentary on abusive, co-dependent relationships
and their enabler communities.
REYNARD Oh god, I don't even want to hear this.
CHARLOTTE Typical.
REYNARD What? What's typical? I want to keep enjoying
a comic strip, so what, I'm a chauvinist? I'm in
denial? I'm shallow? What?
CHARLOTTE Hey, you said all of that, not I. I am just amused
at how quickly you feel the need to defend your
position of happy ignorance.
REYNARD Hmph, it's a better position than yours if I get
to laugh once in a while. I can at least express
a little delight, a little joy!
CHARLOTTE But I am laughing now, am I not?
REYNARD Mocking me and making me feel ignorant aren't
exactly expressions of innocent enjoyment.
CHARLOTTE Oh, I am not laughing at you. I am laughing with
you.
REYNARD I believe I stopped laughing quite some time ago.
CHARLOTTE Hee, that is not my concern! Here, this ought to
cheer you up. It is very funny. It is called
"Why I Hate Saturn" by Kyle Baker.
REYNARD Oh no you don't. I'm leaving!
CHARLOTTE Indeed? Could you pick up some milk while you
are out?
Learn 'midst fashion's era, Mr.
