Issue 22, Page 1
Transcript
1: It is late evening in the outskirts of Cairo. modern suburban house with large windows, a rooftop garden, and a spacious balcony is lit from within. The moon is a thin sliver in the sky, peeking above trees and distant buildings.
Dad: Happy birthday, pumpkin.
2: Small hands rip pink wrapping paper off a brown box.
3: The lid of the box is open, and nestled into foam are the components of a very high-end refracting telescope.
4: Aa small bovine girl hugs tight around the hips of a thinly built Sika Deer. The mom, a tall and soft looking cape buffalo, sits at the kitchen table, watching and smiling.
Girl: Thank you! Thank you!
Dad: Oop, haha, okay, okay!
I’ll show you how to use it after dinner, okay?
How I think at this point, “aww, how sweet; I wonder how it’s all going to go to hell?”
Um. Swiftly? 😉
(And if the title page is any indication, dad will at least be the one getting blamed for it …)
It’s exactly that?
telescope addictions can be long and deep… you know you hve it bad when you can build one out of sewer pipe and broken mirrors… saw one like that in a star geysers club.
I really like this family-like, birthday party scene!
Um, is it supposed to say, “cape buffalo”, in the transcript? I’m just guessing.