Knowing how to party on vacation, I took a day tour of Austwitz. It was a very powerful experience, and I am grateful for the opportunity to go. By the end of the day, I was emotionally drained. When I got back to Krakow, I tried to read in the park. However, sitting there in the Planty with my book, all I could do was stare off into space contemplating the horror, and feeling thankful for my life and circumstances. Then I realized large very smushy spiders were crawling on me. Freaking out, I went to my tourist apartment and did a full body search, finding spiders under my shirt, and one in my underwear. I reiterate "freaking out." Perhaps a fitting end to the day?
The final sketch page has some misc. stuff... my frightening taxi experiences in Prague and Krakow, and the woman I saw in the Planty. She caught my eye because her neck was so fat. A second look showed her huge gut. But other than her fat neck and huge gut, she was not a large woman. I mean, she wasn't svelte or anything, but definitely disproportionately fat in the neck and gut areas.
Whoa. You went from lounging in a hot springs during your last vacation to getting trapped in a box & caught in cobwebs... Not to belabor the point, but how did the spiders finally register? Did you feel them first, or see them? Still, it's an excellent sketch w/that potential to become a really good piece of cover art for... something. And your taxi in Krakow was scraping against the curb? What was your driver DOING?!
ReplyDeleteI didn't feel the spiders, or see them; I suppose that makes it creepier. I have the habit of cracking my neck and then pinching it the relieve headaches. While I was rubbing around, I smushed a spider, smearing its green guts all over.
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