Chapter 8 – Page 089
If String were an eighties cartoon this would be a nakedly obvious ploy to sell a new toy variant.
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Panel 1:
Nansi pulls a rounders stick from a stand on her way out the store.
NANCY (box): Now, you’re going to be bombarded with a lot of noise.
NANCY (box): It will never stop hurting, not ever. And you’re going to have to tune most of it out to get anything useful.
Panel 2:
Nansi expertly cleaves a lock off a door across the reception area leading to the Currys.
NANCY (box): Think of it like tuning your violin. You’re never going to get the perfect chord that pleases everyone, just go with whatever feels good to your ear and trust the competition judges have the same taste.
SI (box): You know how bad I was at those competitions, right?
NANCY (box): Well, yeah. I was there.
Panel 3 (wide):
At a workbench in Screwfix, Nansi is illuminated by a spark as she works on something new. Opened boxes for a portable DVD player and pair of headphones lay on a shelf behind.
SI (box): 487.2 terahertz.
NANCY (box): It’ll do, I guess. London is out of bounds for the foreseeable, but much of the country operates on similar wavelengths due to cultural osmosis. We can adjust on the way.
SI (box): A roving defender of relativity without portfolio?
NANCY (box): It’s weird hearing you use long words in your head without pulling up the magic dictionary.
Panel 4:
Close up, Nansi pulls a pair of headphones on, strap resting on the back of her neck.
SI (box): I dunno, Nancy.
SI (box): I…
SI (box): I don’t wanna do this no more.
NANCY (box): Someone has to.
Panel 5:
Close up. Nansi straps the portable DVD player, the new Instrument, to her leg.
SI (box): Yeah, but...why me, though?
NANCY (box): Cuz no one else can.
NANCY (box): You want to leave it up to the likes of Carol/Alice?
SI (box): Honestly?
SI (box): ...kinda, yeah.
Nansi pulls a rounders stick from a stand on her way out the store.
NANCY (box): Now, you’re going to be bombarded with a lot of noise.
NANCY (box): It will never stop hurting, not ever. And you’re going to have to tune most of it out to get anything useful.
Panel 2:
Nansi expertly cleaves a lock off a door across the reception area leading to the Currys.
NANCY (box): Think of it like tuning your violin. You’re never going to get the perfect chord that pleases everyone, just go with whatever feels good to your ear and trust the competition judges have the same taste.
SI (box): You know how bad I was at those competitions, right?
NANCY (box): Well, yeah. I was there.
Panel 3 (wide):
At a workbench in Screwfix, Nansi is illuminated by a spark as she works on something new. Opened boxes for a portable DVD player and pair of headphones lay on a shelf behind.
SI (box): 487.2 terahertz.
NANCY (box): It’ll do, I guess. London is out of bounds for the foreseeable, but much of the country operates on similar wavelengths due to cultural osmosis. We can adjust on the way.
SI (box): A roving defender of relativity without portfolio?
NANCY (box): It’s weird hearing you use long words in your head without pulling up the magic dictionary.
Panel 4:
Close up, Nansi pulls a pair of headphones on, strap resting on the back of her neck.
SI (box): I dunno, Nancy.
SI (box): I…
SI (box): I don’t wanna do this no more.
NANCY (box): Someone has to.
Panel 5:
Close up. Nansi straps the portable DVD player, the new Instrument, to her leg.
SI (box): Yeah, but...why me, though?
NANCY (box): Cuz no one else can.
NANCY (box): You want to leave it up to the likes of Carol/Alice?
SI (box): Honestly?
SI (box): ...kinda, yeah.