piffin's bomb

This is because of the wonderful Themerson gift I received yesterday. It is a scene from Stefan Themerson's book "Euclid was an ass", in which Piffin commits a bomb attack. I drew it some twelve years ago, I think. A professor is the victim, but he is the innocent victim. His house is in between that of an ambassador and a general, either one of them could have been the targeted victim. It was never found out. Years later I happened to see a BBC program in which women told about how they got on with their lives after being widowed. One of them was a speach therapist. One day, when her husband was walking their poodle, a bomb went of and he died. This had happened right in between the houses of an ambassador and a general, and it was never found out for whom the bomb was meant. Piffin commited her bomb attack with her grandmother's poodle. Themerson must have read a lot of newspapers.

Drawing in PDF format.

Posted by eliane at December 16, 2004 02:15 PM