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ALT Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
ALT A science lecture. A scientist stands on a stage holding a pointer and gesturing to a slide depicting the earth on fire. In the audience one member turns to another amd says “I prefer her earlier, funnier theories”.
ALT An ink drawing of a cartoon by Tom Gauld. Signed in pencil. A writer sits in her publisher's office and says: "I've got an idea for a story that examines multiple outcomes for each action." The publisher's three possible replies are depicted: 1. I love it! 2. Hmm. It might work. 3. That sounds terrible. Depending on the publisher's reply, she leaves the room saying: I'll send you a draft in three months. or To hell with you! I'll write it anyway. Both versions lead to an image captioned "Nine years later..." which shows the writer surrounded by notes and drafts, saying "Finished! Finally!" and this leads to images of the writer holding either: 1. a rejection letter 2. a sheaf of polite reviews 3. a Nobel prize And yet, inevitably all the possibilities land with the same image: The writer's gravestone lit by the moon.