Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from, Nature about the primeval forest It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
Here is
a
copy
of the
drawing:
In
the
book
it said:
"Boa constrictors
swallow
their
prey
whole,
without chewing it.
After
that
they are not able
to move,
and they sleep
through the six months
that they need
for digestion.
I pondered
deeply,
then,
over
the adventures
of the jungle.
And
after some work
with
a
colored pencil
I succeeded
in making my first drawing.
my
drawing Number One.
It looked something like this:
I showed
my
masterpiece
to,
the grown-ups,
and
asked them
whether
the drawing
frightened them.
But
they answered:
"Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?".
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained.
Page 1