Selkie 1467
Dec21
on December 21, 2020
at 10:56 am
She did her assigned reading.
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Selkie: Towards you I roll, you all-destroying but unconquering MATH! From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!
George: Save it for English class, Sel.
Selkie: Bllleeaarrggh! MAAAAATH!
Session Bell: BRRRRRRNNG
Mina: That's the lunch bell, everyone. Lets line up and head to the cafeteria.
Selkie: Oh boy, oh boy! You ready fors this, George?
George: Oh boy, snails, yeah am I ever.
George: Save it for English class, Sel.
Selkie: Bllleeaarrggh! MAAAAATH!
Session Bell: BRRRRRRNNG
Mina: That's the lunch bell, everyone. Lets line up and head to the cafeteria.
Selkie: Oh boy, oh boy! You ready fors this, George?
George: Oh boy, snails, yeah am I ever.
I figure Selkie would most likely have been assigned a watered-down kid-friendly version of the book. Maybe just two stabbings.
There is something so magnificently extra about an elementary-school kid rage-quoting Moby-Dick. I love it.
Ah, but is she quoting Moby Dick, or The Wrath of Khan?
Ooh, good point: panel 2 seems to suggest the latter.
“MAAAAAAAAATH!”
Selkie is going to be heartbroken when she finds out exactly how much math is required for mad science.
If she hates math now just wait until they start teaching her algebra and trigonometry.
And geometry! It’s especially tedious and confusing if you’re not spatially-oriented, and in some ways it’s an introduction to trig. Though she might possibly be in the group that prefers geometry because of how unlike algebra it is.
I’d say “and calculus” as well but I think that one’s optional, though if she’s trying to become a mad scientist (or scientist of any kind) she may end up having to brave the fires of Cal II, the hardest, densest, and most information-heavy math to ever exist.
(Tangentially-related protip: Don’t take Calculus III and Linear Algebra at the same time; it is a terrible idea. They’re similar enough to be confused with each other but different enough for that to matter and hurt your grades, especially if sleep deprived.)
Calculus II was fairly straightforward compared to Diff Eq.
Does George not realize that humans eat snails too?
Probably thinks it’s a cartoon/movie thing only, if he knows at all.
Then again, humans will eat *anything* that was once alive. Sometimes we don’t even wait for *that* prerequisite before we consume it.
Personally, never had “snail” in the way they’re talking, but squid, eel, and octopus are yummy. So is gator, ostrich, kangaroo (although smelly if not cooked right), and deer. And if you ever get the chance to try conch fritters or conch steak, I highly recommend.
(There’s a reason humans are considered the orcs/fae of sci-fi…)
No point in trying to sell an intelligent child on maths– they always see too many ways around it at that age. All we can do is wait till they come to university, realise that lack of mathematics is in the way of their ambitions, then overcharge them for corrective teaching.
Hehehe… KERCHING!
I cannot overstate how happy I am to see her use the criminally underrated first part of the quote.