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       Hitori Dake no Renga - A Plague Diary (42)
        
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       "The doctor recalled the plague of Constantinopole which,
       according to Procopius, claimed ten thousand victims in one day.
       Ten thousand dead equals five times the audience in a large
       cinema. That's what you should do. You should get all the people
       coming out of five cinemas, take them into a square in the town
       and make them die in a heap; then you would grasp it better." --
       Albert Camus, The Plague
        
       This panel started as an enlargement from Gray's Anatomy that I
       was doing for something else, but misapplied a solarize filter
       after colourizing it, yielding the decayed and almost nauseating
       look of the lungs. The effect was so striking that I pulled it
       into an HDNR panel template, struck the solarized page white and
       replaced it with an ethereal cyan fog, and then added the tainted
       phlegm dripping from the bronchi with a paintbrush and some dodge
       tools.
        
       Plague diaries make morbidly fascinating observations on
       humanity, for nothing is more visceral than a dangerous and
       contagious disease (I should know, as part of my day job involves
       working with active tuberculosis cases) and nothing destroys
       human relationships more than knowing that anyone, anyone, could
       be the carrier of your doom. The modern media constantly whips
       the populace into a frenzy over the next big pandemic, yet in
       this modern age we cannot conceive of and will probably never see
       again something as impassively genocidal as the Plagues of the
       early Renaissance or even the flu pandemic of the early 20th
       century. Instead, we have all new reasons to fear our neighbours.
        
       Copyright 2009 Cameron Kaiser except noted. All rights reserved.
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