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the most mundane plumbing drawing in the world as the background for a semi-interesting unfolding excercise.
Line drawings by William John Hopkins.
"The Doers" COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
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A cover illustration for a novella which was accepted by Bewildering Stories. Here's a link to the publication. You can access all the chapters from the page: www.bewilderingstories.com/issue461/birdland2.html
For the Illustration Friday group, I point out that the man's scrubs are really WRINKLED!!! In the story the hero (Michael) is an escapee from protective custody in a scientific institute in a post-apocalyptic, Utopian society (where he is being studied because of his brain's unusual ability to work as a receiver for radio waves), and naturally escapees don't usually have access to irons or dry cleaning. Also Michael's brain is his most valuable organ; WRINKLES are characteristic of maturing brains; what Hercule Poirot used to call "the little gray cells" are composed of wrinkled (and therefore imprinted with memory and knowledge) matter--thus wrinkles are an integral part of the story in two ways.
You can hear Sarah Vaughan's classic rendition of "Lullaby of Birdland" at