Art for saki101 A Day in the Life, PG

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Title: A Day in the Life; or, Watson, the Unreliable Narrator
Recipient: saki101
Artist: [redacted]
Rating: PG

Notes: Compressed charcoal. Many thanks to my very patient, pseudonym-less beta, and to [redacted] for helpful comments. For those who wonder what a palimpsest is (I didn't know, at least) it's a manuscript where the original text has been erased and then written over.

Captions are actual citations, from NORW, GOLD and YELL.

Saki, you mentioned wanting art, and stories weaving in different artistic aspects, and that's what inspired this. I hope you like it!

Comments

[swissmarg]

What a wonderful idea, and beautifully done. I love the lighting in the last one. For some reason, the middle one strikes me as the most poignant, though, as it's not just a slight twisting of the truth but a blatant obfuscation that Watson writes, whereas they are clearly so engaged with each other. It's as if even something as innocent as enjoying each other's company for conversation would be suspect.

[garonne.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was particular pleased to read what you said about the middle one -- at first I thought it would be just too far from the truth... then I thought that sadly, a man in Watson's position would probably feel he could never be too careful or too circumspect.