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This comic quotes a [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19134214/httpswwwxkcdcom1979/|a lengthy section of the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph's September 30, 1881 issue]. The tragic event referenced throughout is the {{w|Assassination of James A. Garfield|assassination of President James A. Garfield}}. Interestingly, the article is about how closely studied the incident will or will not be in the future. Garfield's assassination is rarely more than a quick note in a history class, leaving only the "dry and tedious" historians to comb through the details. | This comic quotes a [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19134214/httpswwwxkcdcom1979/|a lengthy section of the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph's September 30, 1881 issue]. The tragic event referenced throughout is the {{w|Assassination of James A. Garfield|assassination of President James A. Garfield}}. Interestingly, the article is about how closely studied the incident will or will not be in the future. Garfield's assassination is rarely more than a quick note in a history class, leaving only the "dry and tedious" historians to comb through the details. | ||
− | The | + | The punchline comes from not how insignificant this assassination has come to be viewed, but from Megan and Cueball being baffled by the sheer scope of information contained in the past. |
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− | + | The title text indicates that there is more information about the past than can be researched by the manpower of available historians at this time. For whatever reason, be it lack of funding to carry out research or lack of interested people becoming historians, the facetious solution is to just ignore events of either even or odd numbered years. This would essentially halve the amount of data to go through and the amount of time to go through it, but it would be at the detriment of our understanding of all of the context of said events. | |
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:'''How accurately will future generations know the immense volume of grief and sorrow which has rolled over the land? Will those who come after us ever be able to understand the extent of our loss?''' <font color="gray">Is there anything in the first century of our history—even the death of the great Lincoln—which can be used as a parallel? </font> | :'''How accurately will future generations know the immense volume of grief and sorrow which has rolled over the land? Will those who come after us ever be able to understand the extent of our loss?''' <font color="gray">Is there anything in the first century of our history—even the death of the great Lincoln—which can be used as a parallel? </font> | ||
− | :<font color="gray">Perhaps a careful reading of the daily papers of the present | + | :<font color="gray">Perhaps a careful reading of the daily papers of the present period may give some future antiquarian a fine idea of the feelings of the nation during the past summer.</font> '''But these journals are so large, so full of detail, that we imagine the coming American will never find time to read the record.''' <font color="gray">He must depend on a brief statement, meagerly compiled by sonic dry and tedious historian. </font> |
− | :::<font color="gray"> | + | :::<font color="gray">-The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph </font> |
− | :::<font color="gray"> | + | :::<font color="gray"> September 30,<sup>th</sup> 1881 </font> |
:[The third and final panel is the same size as the first, below and to the right. It contains a zoom in on Cueball and Megan talking.] | :[The third and final panel is the same size as the first, below and to the right. It contains a zoom in on Cueball and Megan talking.] | ||
− | :Cueball: Man | + | :Cueball: Man the past is so '''''big. ''''' |
:Megan: How do historians even cope? | :Megan: How do historians even cope? | ||
:Cueball: I have no idea. | :Cueball: I have no idea. |