
My Drawing of Otis P. Lord
I AM NOT AN ARTIST I just love this scene and the description of Otis in the moment and the somewhat prophetic metaphor of his head being stuck in a screen. The excerpt:
“and then next to her is poor old Otis P. Lord, the Hitachi monitor still over his head like the sallet of some grotesque high-tech knight, slumped and with his sneakers pointing at each other in the blue and black shag, hands in his lap, two crude eye-holes cut into the black plastic casing of the monitor's base, Lord not meeting Pemulis's eye, and wicked hanging shards of glass from the screen he fell through point-ing-some nearly touching, even-his slim neck and throat, so he has to hold his head very still, despite the heav-ings of his shallow chest”