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The metacartoonist wearies at times of demonstrating the fundamental realities of nature pace nature of reality in such an explicit way as is often the case, and here is in full form with a surface handwaving which belies the cunning underlying metalevel -- this subtle redirection from the abstract via omission of the concrete being, it goes without saying, one of the quintessential sine qua nons of the metacartoonist's ineffability, the ineffable quintessentiality of the concrete handwaving serving as always to wave the hands of the quintessential in each and every cunning underlyingness; metalevel after metalevel only serving to handwave the ineffable metacartoonality of the essential quint and blargle fargle hermit crab tomato soup. No, wait, I forgot what I was going to say.

The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="900" width="700" rowformat="1">
<panel>
  <character name="ilya" aspect="hatted"/>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">Is being good day, swirly entity!</caption>
  <character name="ivan" aspect="1"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">Am being in agreement, tovarishch.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">What?  Am flabberghosted!  You are speaking also
with pa-rusky accent?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">Da, of course, am Ivan.   </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">[insert witty Communistic rejoinder]</caption>
  <character name="ilya" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="ivan" action="leaves"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">[need punchline here]    </font>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel/>
<panel>
  <caption location="middle" size="12" fgcolor="orange">OK, that underwhelmed my expectations.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dot"/>
  <caption location="top middle" size="12" fgcolor="blue">We need professional help of some sort.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="orange">I dunno, I kind of thought that "Ciao Mao" thing was ...
not entirely devoid of wittiness.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" size="12" fgcolor="blue">Having the Bot slice and dice the CNN
headlines would be less devoid of wittiness.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: DOUBLE-PLUS UNDEVOID OF WITTINESS!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>
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