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This cartoon about Mr. Pembrose evidently left a fair number of people wondering what in God's name was going on here.

Mr. Pembrose (I have no idea where this name came from. In general, I just try to match characters with names that "feel right."), from whatever circumstances in his life have rendered him such, is only an eye. (Yes, that's supposed to be an eyeball resting on the couch―the image all but vanished after size reduction.) And who wouldn't have more than a little anger toward the world if ending up as an eye was the card life dealt them?

OK, maybe it doesn't work.