Editing 740: The Tell-Tale Beat
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Daft Punk}} | + | {{w|Daft Punk}} is a French electronic music group. The beat used in electronic music can be vocalized or spelled as "unn-tss". '{{w|The Tell-Tale Heart}}' is a short story by {{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}, in which [[Cueball]] tries to appear sane while describing how he killed a man and hid his body in the floorboards. Eventually, he imagines he hears the dead man's heartbeat through the floorboards. |
− | + | Cueball narrates that he killed Daft Punk and hid their bodies under the floorboards, as the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' did. (Having to outsmart a band named [[wiktionary:daft|Daft]] Punk is quite ironic.) He says he has been haunted by the sound of the band's beats. | |
− | In the title text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity | + | In the title text, the narrator continues trying to assert his sanity. He then insinuates that he will kill Roderick Usher's band; however, Roderick Usher was only a character in '{{w|Fall of the House of Usher}}', another story by Edgar Allan Poe, making a pun on 'house', a sub-genre of techno. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | : | + | :The three panels show portions of a single scene. Although the characters are still stick figures, the artwork style is heavily crosshatched and shaded.)) |
:[In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a bookshelf.] | :[In the first panel there is a desk with monitor on it, and a painting of a woman above that. Next to it is a bookshelf.] | ||
:Ever since I murdered Daft Punk | :Ever since I murdered Daft Punk | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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[[Category:Music]] | [[Category:Music]] |