Editing 289: Alone

{{comic
| number    = 289
| date      = July 13, 2007
| title     = Alone
| image     = alone.png
| titletext = Worries assuaged, the numbers become less important than your touches.
}}

==Explanation==
Cueball is on a romance with Megan but his attention is still more to {{w|Random Fibonacci sequence|Fibonacci Sequences}} as he does count on her touches rather than he really does enjoy her snuggles.

But at the title text he reverts this and falling back to the well known xkcd romance, he is just falling in love.

==Transcript==
:[Megan crawling on bed toward Cueball.]
:Cueball: It's not something you can turn off.
:[Cueball pulling Megan, bedspread, and pillow off of bed onto floor.]
:Cueball: A part of me is always detached. Abstracting, looking at numbers and patterns.
:[Megan on top of Cueball, both under bedspread, on floor. Megan looks to be 'touching' Cueball.]
:Cueball: When we should be closest, part of me is still alone. Counting the touches of her fingertips. Touch. Touch. Touch touch. Touch touch touch. Touch touch touch touch touch.
:[Same scene as third panel.]
:Cueball: Wait. Is that... That's the Fibonacci Sequence! Whatever I did to deserve you, it couldn't have been enough.

{{comic discussion}}
@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 ==Explanation==
-[[Cueball]] is making love with [[Megan]] but, like many highly introverted people, his attention is split between his inner and outer worlds. Part of his mind is counting her touches, and another part is wondering why his brain does these things, automatically and without his wanting it to. This worries him, and he feels guilty because he isn't giving her his undivided attention, which he believes she deserves.
+Cueball is on a romance with Megan but his attention is still more to {{w|Random Fibonacci sequence|Fibonacci Sequences}} as he does count on her touches rather than he really does enjoy her snuggles.
-As he unwillingly counts her touches, he recognizes the {{w|Fibonacci sequence}}, which starts with 1, 1, 2, 3 and 5. This recognition shocks him: it's like she knows what is going on in his head, and she sends him this signal to tell him that it's okay and that she understands. Awestruck, Cueball is reassured and glories in her love.
+But at the title text he reverts this and falling back to the well known xkcd romance, he is just falling in love.
-The title text makes it clear that he is able to stop worrying about the counting and that he is able to let it continue just in the background. It doesn't stop, but it isn't nearly that important or salient as the touching done by Megan.
 ==Transcript==
@@ Line 20: / Line 18: @@
 :Cueball: A part of me is always detached. Abstracting, looking at numbers and patterns.
 :[Megan on top of Cueball, both under bedspread, on floor. Megan looks to be 'touching' Cueball.]
-:Cueball: When we should be closest, part of me is still so alone. Counting the touches of her fingertips. Touch. Touch. Touch touch. Touch touch touch. Touch touch touch touch touch.
+:Cueball: When we should be closest, part of me is still alone. Counting the touches of her fingertips. Touch. Touch. Touch touch. Touch touch touch. Touch touch touch touch touch.
 :[Same scene as third panel.]
-:Cueball: Wait. Is that... That's the Fibonacci sequence! Whatever I did to deserve you, it couldn't have been enough.
+:Cueball: Wait. Is that... That's the Fibonacci Sequence! Whatever I did to deserve you, it couldn't have been enough.
-==Trivia==
-*Randall forgot the period after "Counting the touches of her fingertips".
 {{comic discussion}}
-[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
-[[Category:Math]]
-[[Category:Romance]]
-[[Category:Sex]]