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Thursday, March 26, 1987

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Calvin is impatient with Hobbes. He says he'll go into the transmogrifier first. Hobbes wants to know what the point is to changing yourself into something else. Calvin tells him to think of the knowledge gained. Hobbes comments on what horrors we visit upon ourselves in the name of science. From inside the box, Calvin tells Hobbes to set it to "lungfish", then changes his mind to "musk ox", no wait...

Transcript

Look, if you can't make up your mind, I'll go first and turn myself into something. I'll show you. But what's the point of turning yourself into something else? No one's done it! Think of the knowledge to be gained. What horrors we visit upon ourselves in the name of science. Ok, I'm in. set the dial on "lungfish" ... no make it "musk ox" ... no ...

Collected in

Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
p. 102
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
p. 230
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
p. 56
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Book 1,p. 249
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Book 1,p. 249
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