In the hospital room, Rorschach was zoning out. In reality, he was repeatedly examining the result on his panel—the very thing that had made him faint.
The rune was composed of many elements, but its main structure was instantly recognizable: a regular hexagon containing three alternating straight lines. That's right... a benzene ring.
'Alas, this world has no Kekulé structure. Instead, after a series of names like "Rorschach's Constant" and "Rorschach's Equation," there will be a "Rorschach Structure" to add to the list—if he's willing to isolate the "heavy carbon compound of the Lightweight Flammable Element" and tell everyone that this is more or less what it looks like.'
