Tom Gauld | Bluesky
Transcript
A cartoon in which the speech bubbles are categorised by colour.
Panel 1: A man cooks dinner for a woman who is looking at his bookshelves. He calls from the kitchen”I hope you’re not judging me on my bookshelves?” (Blue) She replies “Haha, no!” (Orange)
Panel 2: She takes a book off the shelf and asks “Have you read all of these?” (Blue) He replies “Of course!” (Orange)
Panel 3: she leafs through the book and asks “Can I borrow this?’ (Blue) He replies “Sure, I love lending my books!” (Orange)
The key below explains that Blue represents a question and orange represents a lie.


That’s rather off putting, tbh. I’ve never lent a book hoping it would come back to me. I’m not some dewey decimal dragon jealous of a hoard of knowledge.
If i want to give someone a book, I say I’m giving it to them. If we use the word “lend” I better fucking get it back.
Bad vibes
Guess who’s not getting lent any books…
Maybe it’s as much to ensure that it’s no longer in their collection so they know to buy another should it not return.