Milky Eye

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Sounds like a dream from the life of edgar Allan poe and a fascinating dream it was. This is deeply powerful and expressive.

Wow, one helluva nightmare!

Thanks Michael and Heather. Yes Michael, I stole some of the idea from Poe’s ‘The Tell Tale Heart’, a nightmare indeed.

Well I would have been terrified seeing this looming over me . Excellent pastel painting

What a nightmare, Michael. This drawing is quite frightening too, but a powerful one nevertheless.

Scary image but the colours are excellent.

A powerful enraged image. There's something particularly menacing about a milky eye, although I guess the bloke who gave him the milky eye would be more threatening. Smashing painting.

Thank you Val-Irene, Stephen, Lewis, Ellen and Stephen.

A superb, imaginative drawing. There is definitely a sense of a nightmare within it!

I met him last night at the chippy Mick, we were arguing over “to salt or not to salt” a fish supper. He said I had a big mouth for a wee squirt and that he’d had a lucky escape from ear ache south of the border. His milky eye might have been a result of me squirting vinegar in his eye when he jabbed me with his chip fork…..serves him right! Fantastic use of pastel !

Great narrative Fiona. I felt that vinegar hit my eye and I shrieked again. It’s 5.55 am here but I could actually manage a fish breakfast after your story.

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26/01/2023
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The image of an angry old man that came to me in a dream last night. The old man’s milky, pale blue, vulture-like eye fell upon me and my blood ran cold. ‘For the love of suffering Jesus, just shut up’, he said. ‘Thank goodness for freedom of speech’, I replied, awoke with a shriek, went into a state of automatic surrealism and sketched this image in soft pastel.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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