A young girl sitting at the train station, her hair in two braids and dressed a little shabbily with a battered carpetbag next to her.
Christ, I hate to admit it, but I’m getting nothing from this. What work does it depict? Preparing to kick myself after I hear the answer…
Sir Rhosis
Is it Lenny and George? I’d draw them in an open field or a barn, though.
I think at the end of the book they are by a lake. My memory could be off though.
^^^Could be right. Been years since I read OMAM, and seemed to remember that (just in case someone hasn’t read it) George shot and killed Lenny as they sat in a barn.
Am I even remembering correctly that the intelligent one was named George?
Sir Rhosis
:gasps: The missing torso of Ozymandias!
Quite a find, huh?
You bet. And one of Napoleon’s soldiers shot his nose off, too. Bummer.
Professor Xavier?
(I’m kidding!)
A small, raggedly dressed boy holding up an empty bowl
Two men, one tall and thin on horseback, the other fat and riding a donkey
A woman flying through the sky suspended by an open umbrella
Biblical literature is particularly loaded with such images:
A naked man and woman in a lush garden, with an apple and a snake.
A body of water being separated into two, with a large mass of people walking in the middle.
A golden calf.
A burning bush.
Two stone tablets.
A battle between a little guy with nothing but a sling and a huge guy with lots of armor.
A guy looking out his window at a woman taking a bath.
A man and a king looking at strange writing on a wall.
A man, woman, and baby in a barn.
A guy walking on water in a storm.
And, of course, three dudes being crucified.
An old man with long grey hair and a beard in a grey robe, armed with a sword and a staff. He stands on a stone bridge, facing a flaming demonic being.
A man with fangs in formal clothing holding a woman in old style English clothing who has two bleeding marks on her neck.
A man with pointed ears, black skin, white hair, and red eyes holding a scimitar in either hand, with a black panther next to him.
A man on a white horse with blue eyes, facing a pass filled with a huge army all in black armor.
A bowman aiming a black arrow at a vast red dragon flying far overhead.
A furred snake with the head of a cat.
A young man with a huge sword covered in blue flames, facing a man in black robes and a steel mask, wielding a black sword.
A small, pretty woman with black hair, flanked by a handsome man, and another man who is handsome on one side, and terribly scarred on the other.
A young red headed man with a winged snake.
A man with a knife falling out of an opening in his arm into his hand.
A man with the head of a jackal facing the huge black shadow of a horse. He holds a silver bridle in one hand.
A long haired man armed with sword and rifle, riding what looks like a velociraptor, surrounded by larger aliens with four arms who are riding the same sort of creatures.
A man in blue and black armor standing before a smallish bridge, wielding a M-16 in either hand. An army of skeletal riders is approaching.*
- If comic books count
A door knocker that assumes the appearance of a man’s face.
A woman knitting in Paris.
A bishop in a church confronted by four men with swords.
A huge tripod firing a death ray.
A huge cannon firing a spaceship toward the moon.
A white man in a loincloth standing in a treetop, or swinging on a vine.
A man in sunglasses unwrapping the top of his completely bandaged head to reveal…nothing underneath!
An old man in a decrepit boat with a huge marlin strapped to the side.
A shark ascending vertically, with gaping maw, toward an unsuspecting female swimmer.
A wooden puppet with a very long nose.
A woman walking a small dog along the sea-front.
A bowman aiming an arrow at a boy with an apple on his head.
A tropical island, where everything is frozen, including a man lying on his back and thumbing his nose.
A Soviet prisoner.
A giant iron submarine.
A giant cannon at Cape Canaveral.
Giant towering devices moving along on snakelike legs and sending out rays of heat.
A boot stamping on a human face – for ever
Yup, and I do recall them chilling out by a lake (or river?) at the beggining of the novel.
A young man with goat legs wearing a scarf and carrying some packages under his arm, standing in a snowy forest.
A large billboard with a pair of spectacled eyes overlooking a valley of ash.
A spider and a pig.
A demon sitting at a typewriter.
A silouette of a woman with her arm raised to her shoulder, fist and teeth clenched.
A guy on a gurney in a straightjacket wearing a hockey mask (that is one weird sentence).
A girl in a gingham dress, accompanied by a lion, a scarecrow, and a tin woodsman.
(Or just a single flying monkey would do in a pinch.)
A large black bird sitting on a pallid bust of Pallas.
The statuette of a black bird.
A pigtailed girl on a bed with small dog in a house that’s sailing through the air above Kansas.
A somewhat raggedy boy whitewashing a fence.