God: HEY T-REX HOW MANY EMOTIONS ARE THERE
T-Rex: How many emotions are there?? I can think of at least three.
T-Rex: Desire, elation, and rage!
God: YOUR LIST OF EMOTIONS IS A SHORT STORY HUH
T-Rex: Yep! It's about a woman who desires something, then gets it and is pretty elated about the whole thing, but then, AFTERWARDS, she's pretty pissed.
God: COOL
Utahraptor: I think emotions are not discrete but rather a continuum, T-Rex!
T-Rex: I find your views interesting! Tell me more!
Utahraptor: The emotions we have in English are just labels we've applied to a SPECTRUM of feeling. You can almost always divide existing emotions into smaller, more precise chunks! For example, your well-known satisfaction at eating cereal in the morning is an exact, identifiable, reproducible joy that I can only label "breakfast pleasure".
T-Rex: Breakfast pleasure! Finally, I have words for that most sublime of satisfactions!! BREAKFAST PLEASURE. I love breakfast pleasure.
Off panel: I know, T-Rex.
T-Rex: I'm not entirely certain that you do!
