1. Does the passage commend determinism ("there is a time determined for every event"), or prudence ("some times are better than others to engage in activities "). Based on 3:11 and 14, I opt for the former. I don't believe in determinism, but I believe that is the point of this long poem.
2. If Mr. Q is describing an immutable providence behind birth and death and 26 other verbs, do I draw them schmaltzy and cute? Or raw like the rest of the book? Prudence tells me to draw baby bassinets and laughing children and peace signs and fighter jets. But then it won't fit with the tenor of the rest of the book.
3. But if I draw baby Osama Bin Laden in a bassinet, planting of opium fields, and feeding Christians to the lions, I'm being true to Mr. Q's penchant for obscurity, absurdity, and depression. But then it won't fit with the tenor of pop culture and love of warm fuzzies.
The reason I'm choking is because I'm thinking too hard. Mr. Q's string of mostly benign actions could mean, "Here are some random things over which we have no control," but how do I draw those actions?
I'd love to use this photo as reference for a cartoony version of, "A time to embrace."
And then I'd like draw that nurse slapping the Navy man to illustrate, "A time to refrain from embracing."
But that "joke" is out of sync with the book of Ecclesiastes...as are the following.
"A time to cast away stones."
"A time to gather stones together."
"A time to plant" (which my aging hippy character would love):
"A time to uproot." (my aging hippy character will weep tears of sorrow).
"A time to laugh."
Non of these images work for me. This is such a pivotal passage I gotta draw it right. One false move and I doom my graphic novel to kitsch-ville. If I nail it I could turn those 24 drawings into a poster.
How do I get unstuck? I just don't know.
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