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@@@@@I didn't even need Scotch tapeI was able to snap the X-ray into the crack between the glass and the chrome facing, and there it was, a thing many claimed did not exist: the brain of a lawyerIt floated against the GulfI stared at it for awhile, I don't know how long - two minutes? four? - fascinated by the way the blue water looked when viewed through the gray crenellations, how those folds changed the water to fogThe slug was a black chip, slightly fragmentedIt looked a little like a small shipLike a rowboat floating on the caldoI had meant only to draw his brain intact - no slug - but it ended up being more than thatI went on and added the water, you see, because the picture seemed to demand itOr maybe they were the sameIt was just a suggestion of the Gulf, but it was there, and it was enough to be successful, because I really was a talented sonofabitchIt only took 467 twenty minutes, and when I was done I had drawn a human brain floating on the Gulf of MexicoIt was, in a way, way coolIt was also horrifyingIt isn't a word I want to use about my own work, but it's unavoidableAs I took the X-ray down and compared it to my picture - slug in the science, no slug in the art - I realized something I perhaps should have seen much earlierCertainly after I started the Girl and Ship seriesWhat I was doing didn't work just because it played on the nerve-endings