To Be is the eponymously named comic and Stoke’s unequivocal response is ‘not to be’. Against Stokes’s preference though existence will continue. I thought of Stoke’s response thinking it was a clever response to the famous question without realizing the question was in fact about contemplating suicide. For some reason I didn’t know this, although I can’t quite tell you know what I thought the question was in regards to, the only thing that does come to mind when I think of the quote is a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is dressed as Hamlet with a skull in hand and asks ‘to be or not to be’. My childhood mind must have been too innocent to grasp the gravity of the question (I’ve tried to find a clip of the video but can’t seem to locate it). In hindsight it really couldn’t be about anything else and what I thought was a clever response in the affirmation of non-existence was actually one of only two answers that could be given. Even if it is not a witty interpretation of the quote it is still very much something a Nihileaf would say, more powerful for the direct and unhesitating manner in which the response is said. – Zachary