I don't think I could have written Church School Blues if I couldn't draw. Drawing drew the old me out. Back then, drawing was a refuge away from the scenes described in Blues and now drawing was the vehicle I used to come back to them.
I have given a lot of thought to what motivated the kids that I called the Dodos. I have concluded that bored personalities had a lot to do with it. Though they seemed of average intelligence there was a certain dullness of mind that made them unable to create or experience wonder. Mischief wasn't enough to break the monotony for them. They had to go beyond mischief to cruelty in order to feel alive.
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