You… really don’t get it, do you? The person being tormented is the one who isn’t doing anything. That’s the joke. Look around him. You’ve got bubbles being blown, which creates the sound of a person blowing right near your ear and the sound of the bubbles popping. Then you’ve got the hand organ down the bench, and across from him you have the paddle ball on string, and someone knitting. All are repetitive, eventually-going-to-drive-you-crazy sounds, much like the slow dripping of water is not terrible in anyway, but comprises the chinese water torture.
They might all be little demons in disguise, or merely figments created by the devil, but who cares? We know they’re not persons being punished, because they could stop at any time if the action was a torment.
Blowing bubbles doesn’t seem like much of a punishment.
But the symbolism in the song of bubbles representing doomed hopes is torture.
It all depends on how much the symbolism mattered to the person blowing bubbles in the comic.
If you’ve never heard of the song, or it doesn’t mean much to you personally, then the devils would probably find something else for you.
You… really don’t get it, do you? The person being tormented is the one who isn’t doing anything. That’s the joke. Look around him. You’ve got bubbles being blown, which creates the sound of a person blowing right near your ear and the sound of the bubbles popping. Then you’ve got the hand organ down the bench, and across from him you have the paddle ball on string, and someone knitting. All are repetitive, eventually-going-to-drive-you-crazy sounds, much like the slow dripping of water is not terrible in anyway, but comprises the chinese water torture.
They might all be little demons in disguise, or merely figments created by the devil, but who cares? We know they’re not persons being punished, because they could stop at any time if the action was a torment.