Pynchon, V

I hadn't started reading the book when I drew this.

No cheese for me!

5th July 2013: Russell in his Old Age

29th June 2013: A sentence from "A Wrinkle in Time"

7th June 2013: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

6th June 2013: You don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion ... and then they can use this system to go back in time and ... derive suspicion from an innocent life."

31st May 2013: Animals Talking in French

I have been looking through my old drawings for the Culturetheque blog, and realised that a lot of what I drew involved an animal saying somthing. I have posted all the drawings that exactly fit that theme here.

21st May 2013: Camberwell at War

16th May 2013: Beyoncé at the bus stop

15th May 2013: Paris For President

14th May 2013: Eggs

12th May 2013: scenes of domestic bliss, scene one

11th May 2013: So I said, hey hey get out of here, there are too many wild animals in this place,

and she was like, of course there are, it's a zoo, it's not a barn, it's not a simple case of a few chickens, I mean when I said we were coming here, what did you think I was saying?



She was eating on some pop corn she'd purchased from from a zoo pop corn vendor as she spoke so she started to choke.

Damn it, she said, I can't even eat pop corn right. Every minute of every day, I'm getting basic easy things wrong, and I mean, pop corn, that's like one of the easiest things to eat.

I had difficulty with French fries just last week. She said that, and I just said, grow up. Hurry up and grow up. It's not like junk food is difficult to eat. It's not like you're eating Irish stew or something. It's rammed with sugar and preservatives and that kind of junk.

She said, I know but I can't help it, I can't helping wanting to eat what's delicious.

You should eat fresh stuff, I told her, like kiwis. Kiwis travel for ages.

We were looking at leopards at this point. Enormous leopards in cages, next to monkeys in cages. There were smaller, non-furry species too, but just as rare. Newts. Octopi in the aquarium. Penguins in the freezing area.



We were chatting quite loudly and a zoo warden came up to us and said, "quiet, please, near the monkeys."

So we left the monkey cages and went looking for the rainforest area. We got caught up looking at spiders, then at turtles, and never made it to the rainforest.



This place is so expensive, I said, I know she replied.

But animals are expensive in the upkeep, and they need to be fed something.



Very true, I said, very true, and maybe with a bit more money, they could accommodate a whale, or pay for animal medical care. MRI scanning monkeys, X raying lizards, giving a hippo an artificial limb. Yeah. Let's go home. I've had enough of the zoo.

8th May 2013: I didn't draw on the wall

Is it an anomaly to know people who are always doing something?
Or am I the anomaly, because I stay in bed to avoid being subjected to the world powering ahead so vertiginously fast?
I get the same feeling as not having done my homework at school if I miss an exhibition.
No. I'd rather sit on my bed to avoid motion sickness. I am no proper city-dweller.

5th May 2013: one-liners

3rd May 2013: someone said "indeterminacy is power"

26th April 2013: WE'RE IN A STAND-OFF SITUATION and other concerns

6th April 2013: I no longer have much use for the cold