…“beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella”, a sort of motto of classic Surrealism as promoted by Andre Breton, though the quote is from Lautréamont’s *Poésies*. Anyway, Inktober 29 was United and this was the most interesting thing I could think of to draw. I didn’t want to lose any of the line quality or details so I left the original lines untouched by the Pentel brush pen I’d been using. There something about overly literal depictions of fantastic literary imagery that appeals to me… - - - Late posting the remainder of my Inktober 2017 entries since I finished mostly on time but haven’t had time to post until now…