“ Too often, the only escape is sleep. ”
Charles Bukowski (via samarmoussa)
(Source: henrycharlesbukowski)
maybe the reason why some of us stay up all night and sleep all day is because we were meant to live on the other side of the planet
….This makes a disturbing amount of sense…
This is a little one-off, one-paged comic I did, telling the little story of a creature called Gentlefeet- which is a short story I created in the past summer for the Hidden Folk project-. I’ve always associated him with the white wobbly giants I’ve been drawing recently, so here he is!
My friend Mona also drew her interpretation of this guy, which you can check out here. It’s lovely!
“ People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. “For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.” If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen. “They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be okay? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.” So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself. ”
George Carlin (via xzxcuzx-me)
Nothing To Do In This Heat But Sleep
hi res version at my blog (x)
