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PAGE 14 (Four panels)

Panel One: view of Hope’s face as she lies inside the MRI machine again.

Caption: After several months during which I thought my eyeballs might start to bleed we are finally making progress.

Panel Two: An instrument panel. On the left-hand side of the panel is a small video screen showing a scan of Hope’s brain. On the right there is a monitor on which words are being printed IN THE BLUE VALLEY THERE ARE ANIMALS YOU CAN EAT. IN THE GREEN VALLEY THERE ARE ANIMALS THAT CAN EAT YOU.

Caption: Our software has finally learned enough to start turning neural patterns into concepts and syntax.

Panel Three: Hope, now sitting in an ordinary office chair. Her head is braced so that it cannot move, and some sort of antenna-like device is pointed at her head.

Caption: In time, our hardware also improves.

Panel Four: Hope and some older male scientists all standing in a circle, raising glasses of champagne in a toast.

Caption: Dreams of telepathy have come true, at least for one woman scientist.

Caption: Our team heads are in Nobel prize territory here. Though I’m not. Too junior. Also too female.

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PAGE 13 (Four panels)

Panel One: View of Faith’s bare feet as she is stepping into the shower. She is stepping into the same goopy substance which we saw dripping out of the shower head on Page 12, Panel Three above.

Caption: Ick! What the…

Panel Two: View of Faith, approximately waist-up. She is naked, having just undressed to get in the shower. Her arms cross in front of her breasts, covering them, and just below her navel we see the goop covering her, dripping off her. She looks terrified.

Faith>: No!

Panel Three: Outside view. We are looking down from above at a little detached bungalow — Faith’s dwelling. Outside the bungalow in its driveway is parked a subcompact car. One or two of the bungalow’s windows should be lighted.

Faith: (jagged balloon projecting from one of the bungalow’s lighted windows): Somebody please help me!

Panel Four: A view of Faith’s skull, lying on the floor of the shower. The skulls is encased in goo.

Caption: Can I really be so screwed?

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PAGE 12 (Four panels)

Panel One: We see the hand of FAITH QUEK (“Faith”) reaching into a tiled shower stall to turn on the shower.

Character design note: Faith is an attractive Asian-American woman in her early thirties. Her design is at the discretion of the artist.

Caption: Shitty day at work, and the traffic was murder.

Panel Two: Faith standing in the bathroom, beginning to undress.

Caption: A nice hot shower will do me good.

Panel Three: View of the shower-head in the shower. In addition to water streaming out of it, some sort of goopy substance is dripping out and falling downward.

Caption: And then I guess I’ll curl up with a book and fall asleep.

Panel Four: Close-up on Faith’s bare feet as she is stepping out of her panties.

Caption: Alone, as so often.

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Panel One: Hope, now in casual dress, sits on a couch with BRIAN BUTLER (“Brian”), her boyfriend. Both look tired. They are watching television, illuminated by the light of its glow.

Character design note: Brian is a generically good-looking guy in his late twenties.

Caption: Evenings I go home and relax in the company of my boyfriedn Brian, who’s adequate, I guess.

Caption: He used to be in science like me, but decided to throw it over for a the big money in finance.

Panel Two: Close-up on Brian who appears to be dozing off in the light of the television.

Caption: I’m beginning to suspect that he wants me to become the nice wife that will go along with his nice career.

Panel Three: View of Hope on the couch. She’s now looking down at a laptop, reading the screen with a look of inspiration as if an interesting idea has just stuck her.

Caption: I naively continue to think that there’s some great adventure to be had in science, though.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 01 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)