Scuttling and Scurrying

[fiat_knox]

To the Mundanes I see all around me.

I see you all.

I watch you as you scuttle to work, and scuttle back and forth to lunch and back to work, and scurry back home or down to the pub.

I observe you as you scurry directly home from work, straight to work from home; and I watch the worst of you as you get out of the house in the morning to stumble onto the bus and, once you arrive in town, lurch straight into the JD Wetherspoons to begin the day's hard drinking regimen that has become the sole focus of your lives.

I see you chasing the pounds, chasing your own tails, chasing after oblivion.

I see it all, and I can hear the voices inside your heads.

I hear them all, screaming.

I am not surprised. If I lived a life as pitiful as this, I'd be screaming, too.

Comments

Re: Randall Munroe said it better than I could.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Sorry to butt in here, but isn't the point of the comic that all five of the people are thinking the same thing? That we all sometimes feel like we're the only person who notices these things, but it isn't really the case at all?

Re: Randall Munroe said it better than I could.

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Perhaps so. But then, which one of the five are the reader supposed to be?

How about the one person on the outside, looking at all five in that carriage and laughing?

Or the viewpoint of Randall Munroe, who drew the panel?