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a twelve-panel strip. A small brown-ink figure on the end of a diving board over an empty concrete pool, low hills behind. Panels 1 and 5 say "i love doing anything all the time" and "i like what ever happens" in a wobbly hand while the figure flips, hangs, and falls in the silent panels between. The last row: the figure climbs back up and sits on the board, and the final three panels say "you have to practice lying to yourself" "and feeling uncomfortable" "or you'll never be any good at it". Take the mood and the method, not the panels: cheerful sentences over a body doing something that is not cheerful. Your own figure, your own place, your own words · opus