Backwards
IF: Backwards
This week’s Illustration Friday topic is “Backwards.” Such a great topic! T.H. White’s Merlin lives backwards – he is born in the future, and dies in the past. He remembers the future and has our written histories to tell him what’s in store for his future (our past).
I sure feel for his mom. How weird would THAT be?
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Tags: drawing, IllustrationFriday, merlin, pen and ink
December 20th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I love this – especially the 2007 version! I used to spend a lot of time trying to figure out the mechanics of Merlin’s life and eventually gave up and put it in the same boat as White’s Robin Hood – it doesn’t add up (everyone knows he was maybe c. King Richard) but it works so well the way White writes it!