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@@@@@Unless, that was, you happened to be a guy like Edgar Freemantle, who had done little more than doodle until an accident on a building site had taken his arm, crushed his skull, and nearly ended his life She had drawn fieldsA gigantic black face, round as a basketball, with a smiling 797 red mouth - probably Melda the housekeeper, although this Melda looked like an overgrown child in extreme close-upThen more animals - raccoons, a turtle, a deer, a bobcat - that were naturally sized, but walking on the Gulf or flying through the airI found a heron, executed in perfect detail, standing on the balcony railing of the house she had grown up inDirectly below it was another watercolor of the same bird, only this time it was hovering upside-down over the swimming poolThe gimlet eyes staring out of the picture were the same shade as the pool itselfShe was doing what I've been doing, I thought, and my skin began to creep againTrying to re-invent the ordinary, make it new by turning it into a dream Would Dario, Jimmy, and Alice cream their jeans if they saw these? I thought there was no doubt Here were two little girls - Tessie and Laura, surely - with great big pumpkin smiles that deliberately overran the edges of their faces Here was a Daddy bigger than the house beside which he stood - had to be the first Heron's Roost - smoking a cigar the size of a rocketA smokering circled the moon overhead 798 Here were two girls in dark green jumpers on a dirt road with schoolbooks balanced on their heads the way some African native girls balanced their pots: Maria and Hannah, no doubtBehind them came a line of frogsIn defiance of perspective, the frogs grew larger rather than smaller Next came Elizabeth's Smiling Horses phaseThere were a dozen or moreI leafed through them, then turned back to one and tapped it"This is the one that was in the newspaper article Wireman said, "Go a little deeperYou ain't seen nuthin yetmore family, rendered in pencil or charcoal or in jolly watercolors, the family members almost always with their hands linked like paperdollsthen a storm, the water in the swimming pool lashed into waves, the fronds of a palm pulled into ragged banners by the wind There were well over a hundred pictures in al