Separation of Lanthanides/ Lanthanides and Actinides
Innocence and experience
1. Innocence and Experience:
A Comparative Tale
I know you expected a comic, but I believe you will be
pleased with the creativity I put into this… I hope this still
achieves the goals of the assignment. I apologize in advance
for sketchiness. :P
By Steven Fuentes
2. This is innocence. His life consists of fleeting whims and desires, he is ruled by
emotion and instinct. To him, everything is new; from everything he can learn more.
3. This is Experience. The only semblance of his former life left are the mementos left
in his office. Photos of a family he’s forgotten and random articles from the people
he’s left behind in his ascent. His accolades, however plentiful, mean nothing but
the paper and the words written. He has replaced emotions with logic and its cold
and calculating reasoning.
4. Innocence admires nature, (among a multitude of other things) with it’s unchanging
methods and patterns; It has survived and propagated itself for millennia.
5. Experience admires only those who have climbed above him, and has no thought of
those below him, save their purposes in respect to making him more and more
important. He demands, however to be admired by those below him. (Logically, he
expects it.)
6. From the perspective of Innocence, ephemeral means something which must be
cherished each moment. He appreciates each moment and every thing equally, so to
him, the word has no meaning.
7. Everything is ephemeral to Experience. All the things he has seen and done have been
done before, and each is more meaningless than the last. Each fleeting moment of
gratitude or satisfaction he feels is gone as rapidly as it came.
8. Innocence has tamed his puppy. They each work to help one another; each has
softened the other’s heart.
9. Experience has tamed his subordinates. Thinking is disallowed without the proper
forms, which are to be submitted in triplicate. (An even then, it is only permitted for
brief periods of time.) They will become mindless drones, and work to benefit no one
at all. (To Tame these people makes experience the tiniest bit happy, if that emotion
still exists for him.)*
* Though I don’t believe it does.
10. Innocence and his puppy have a rite. Every full moon, they go out to look at the
constellations (and the moon of course), and the puppy, whose name, incidentally, is
Ralf, bays at the moon.
11. Layoffs are a rite which Experience participates in each quarter. He enjoys “cutting
the slack” and removing those employees which slow production (they are timed by
the second, and the computer spits out the lowest numbers, you see). He prefers to
do it personally.
* This is the second emotion I have used, but I will have to explain the context.To Experience, it is logical to
remove that which is unnecessary, so he enjoys that he is adhering to logic so precisely.
