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What's in the box?

PaulEberhardt

on Sept. 16, 2010

Yeah, what's in the box? I think we'll see next week, but I'm curious about your speculation.
Hint: being able to read Chinese won't help - I don't understand a word myself. The writings on the box are just two unrelated proverbs I had stored in my vast reference archive - rest assured, that just writing gibberish only because it looks foreign is quite below my standards. I'd never want to insult my Chinese friends by accident.
This, by the way, applies to practically every use of foreign languages and/or non-Latin characters in this comic. (e.g. the runes in Gundula's last spell are a rather rude German football chant translated into Old English aka Anglo-Saxon, which is why I won't re-translate them).

Also, I want you to know that I always read all of your comments and that I appreciate each and every one very much. They really make me feel that the time I spend on doing this is worth every second of it. And more. Thank you!