Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Virtue Map

March 21, 2018

A friend takes 'cleanliness is next to godliness' literally and produces a network map of '-liness' words showing which are 'next to' each other.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-03-21-virtue-map/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "You know, cleanliness is next to godliness." B: "Yes! And manliness is next to surliness." A: "...what?"

[MAP OF VIRTUES: a network linking cleanliness, godliness, woolliness, crumbliness, silliness, prickliness, manliness, wobbliness, ugliness, loneliness, surliness]

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Discrete Math › Graph TheoryDiscrete Math › Networks
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