The Best Furry Drawing Ever Dreamed
This is reprinted courtesy of TheNamelessMonster, a wonderful artist who I met on FA a while ago. I wrote and asked him if I might feature this on my site, and received his permission to do so.
This is so epic that I thought it could only have illustrated something out of Paradise Lost:
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
Why iambic pentameter? What is Milton's point other than being all lofty and weird? Anyways, back to the subject of this post-
. This is a self aware winged falling rabbit, an anthropomorphic creature of Heaven. I sent Mr. TheNamelessMonster the above in my overly heated praise.
The artist wrote me back and told me that he visualized this as a sort of Russian fairy tale, something that I would have noticed were it not for my passion for rebels who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms, tra la la. But I never pay any attention to an artist's opinion of his own work, we are incapable of balanced judgement of this kind.
Here is the last address I have for this graphic wizard-
As we erewhile, astounded and amazed;
No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height
No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height
through glittering firmament of pattern crazed,
resplendent in Heaven's now forbidden light.
Behold the torments of those in revolt against the form of God, the Triumph of Anthro Artistic Genius over Furry Pornographic Sin!
Oh, yeah. This is by Terrance Lindall, and I first saw it in Heavy Metal c. 1980. This got me interested in Paradise Lost, which I have not read much of to this day.
Groovy!
ReplyDeleteThe guy's good, but he turned me down for letting me post this on Hybrid. Probably best that he forgot all about me.
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