22/30. One of my favourite paragraphs from Dan Brown's Deception Point taught me what it must be like drowning, "Drowning, Ming had once read was the most horrific death imaginable. His body felt like lead and his lungs had seemed to have shrunk to nothing, as if they were being crushed by a python. Breathe! At that instant, in a deadly battle of human reflex against reason, Ming's breathing instinct overcame his ability to keep his mouth closed. Wailee Ming inhaled. The water crashing into his lungs felt like scalding oil on his sensitive pulmonary tissue. He felt like he was burning inside out. Cruelly, water does not kill immediately. Ming spent seven horrifying seconds inhaling in the icy water, each breath more painful than the last." . . . #underwater #underwaterworld #aquatic #inkpainting #inkandwater #ink #inkonpaper #bw #painting #artwork #instaart #artistsoninstagram #coral #30inklandscape #ShalArt #danbrown #fishes #drowning https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm7eAaSBxxr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u9ov2jl7pv5h