Words and Pictures Page #4

Do you want it or not?

Here.

At least put this on, huh?

I can do it.

Okay.

So how was your first

day at Croyden Prep?

Not one of them has any

fire in the belly.

Well, there's one very gifted girl

and an English teacher

who's a, pfft, madman.

Barry sent these back?

Oh, he doesn't understand them.

He said that critics will

filet me if he shows them.

Well, does he know about...

What's the point?

Sympathy?

I know what it needs, but...

You should rest.

Mmm!

Go home and feed your family.

Mom wants a call.

After I work.

Thanks, Sabine.

Ugh!

Ow!

In the beginning,

there was the word.

And the word was

indefatigability.

That's eight.

Eight?

Eight.

It's R.A., isn't it?

You can tell.

Well, my wife suffers

from it for years now.

I noticed the...

But she's doing much

better on the new drugs.

So far my body hasn't found

a drug it can tolerate.

The doctor says that he'll make me just

the right cocktail in time, but...

interdenominational.

Is he insane?

Who?

No, it means he likes you, Dina.

God help you.

- Antiegalitarianism.

- Oh, please.

No, it's a ten. I've

been saving it.

It's yours.

Your generation has the most

agile thumbs in human history.

Look at you.

Twittering your friends in

no more than 140 characters

and saying what?

Showered, you watched some

shitty reality TV show,

you ate a yogurt.

You know, what if you had

to say something meaningful

in just three lines and

about 17 syllables?

"Morning and evening,

"someone waits at Montsushima.

One-way love."

What is that about?

That's about 400

years old, Freidman.

It's a Haiku, an early Tweet.

It tells us that somebody's

waiting, waiting all day,

but no one is coming

because this is

a...?

Uh...

Oh, a one-way love?

One-way love.

Okay, okay, okay, pass

the assignments forward.

All business today, sir.

What was the assignment, Swint?

Three paragraphs on the ant?

Specifically?

Three compelling

paragraphs on the ant.

Specifically.

Oh, we have to use the

actual encyclopedias,

not the computers.

Which is really archaic.

Is it?

Who can tell me who Baron Anson is?

Baron Anson for an

immediate "A" grade.

Come on.

Come on, come on!

He was a British naval commander.

He sailed around the world.

And he brought the first British warship

into China and started the Marines.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Where is the town of Ansonia?

Who the hell is Christopher Anstey?

Swint, put your phone away.

British poet. Had a

big hit in 1766.

Huge.

Bravo.

You see, you use a computer,

you click on the word "ant,"

you get the data. Fine.

You pick up a book and leaf through

the pages to find the ant,

you're going to bump into

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