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IMAGE 1:

Black-and-white drawing. Watched by a confused creature with eyes on stalks, who evidently has no idea what’s going on, a nervous-looking avocado-shaped creature clutches its head while imagining the following scene:

The avocado creature is lying flat on its back in the middle of the road, struggling and grimacing in panic but apparently unable to move, as a car bears down on it at high speed, about to run it over. The car’s headlights are depicted as evil eyes fixed on its victim, and the windows are all tinted black.

The picture is titled “EID*” and at the bottom of the page, the asterisk explains: *Ever-Impending Doom

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IMAGE 2:

Color drawing. Against a background of bright yellow, three non-human creatures, all the same size, sit grandly in large chairs. Each of them has its feet resting in a tub of water. The leftmost creature is a red devil with horns and a wistful expression. The middle creature is a giant six-legged bug, with a dark blue thorax, gossamer dragonfly-like wings and moth-like antennae. The rightmost creature is a lavender-gray elephant.

The picture is titled “The Footbaths of Garda”.

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IMAGE 3:

Black-and-white drawing. The sun shines on a tall wall that stands alone, unattached to anything. Cross-hatched lines represent strong shadows thrown by the wall and by a few curious stick-figure by-standers: a wondering person holding a child’s hand, and another person wearing a hat and leaning on something.

These three people are all staring in interest at what is occurring on the wall: On its vertical side, several people (also depicted as stick figures) are rapidly moving up and down, sticking out sideways. None of them have any shadows.

The picture is titled “marching up and down the wall / leaving no shadows at all / they never fall”.

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IMAGE 4:

Color drawing. The page is covered with small pink crescent-shaped figures – all the ones on the left side of the page face right, and all those on the right side of the page face left. Each one has a small black dot within its crescent. At the center of the page floats a huge disembodied human eye, with long eyelashes and a purplish eyelid half-covering a turquoise iris.

The picture is untitled.

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IMAGE 5:

Color drawing. In the center of the page is a green grasshopper, wearing a debonair striped top hat decorated with festive little dots. Surrounding it are four symbols – a blue star, a red pair of lips, a blue crescent moon, and a red heart – all similarly outlined with dots.

The picture is titled “dastardly deeds” and the title is playfully festooned with dots as well.

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IMAGE 6:

Color drawing. An orange fruit, perhaps an apricot, is shown with a stem, two attached green leaves, and a large rotten spot on one side.

The picture is untitled.

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IMAGE 7:

Color drawing. A row of black back-slashes cuts across the entire image from one side of the page to the other. Behind it (and somewhat blurred where the slashes cross them) are two faces.

The face on the left is dark blue. Above the slash-line, it looks like a bald blue head with drooping sad eyes and the beginning of a nose (which gets cut off by the slashes). Below the slash-line, there are no more features and it turns into a mess of wiggly lines like the legs of a blue jellyfish.

The face on the right is dark red. Below the slash-line, we see the bottom half of a head, with a large tooth-baring grin surrounded by thick red lips. Above the slash-line, there are only wiggly red lines sprouting upward and a bit out to each side, sort of like the hair of someone who’s just been electrocuted.

In the bottom right of the image there is a dark green four-leafed clover.

The picture is titled “without you i learn to laugh”.

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IMAGE 8:

Color drawing. The entire page is covered in dark blue dots on a white background, like a color-inverted depiction of a view of outer space filled with innumerable stars. On the left, we see a planet as viewed from space, land forms in golden yellow alternating with dark blue oceans. In the bottom left are two huge stylized stars in pink and purple, side by side, almost nebula-like.

Diagonally across the entire page, with each line written in a different color, is the following text, which can also be taken as the picture’s title:

and it was so otherworldly this planet of blue and gold it almost looked like home again just seen from a different angle a whole new pair of eyes in the same old ignoble head like orion’s belt with a star missing