Re:Ten Thousand Years
by amass on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:33PM
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The problem with the comic strip drawing is that it could be interpreted as meaning things associated with the trefoil take away sickness and sadness if you read the pictures in the wrong order. I don't think a growing tree is strong enough to convey the correct order of the drawings. Inhabitants of the future could just assume the trefoil-material has some negative effect on trees as it heals the sick.
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Re:Ten Thousand Years
by csandreasen on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:49PM
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I didn't interpret those trees as growing myself. It looked to me like the trees were far in the background and he moved towards them before collapsing.
What about numbering each panel in unary? While our current number systems didn't exist 10,000 years ago, humans could presumably count and will retain that capability in the future.