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So, I just read this amazing book called "NEVER LET ME GO" by Kazuo Ishiguro (which is now a major motion picture), and I felt like illustrating a scene from it because it was so vivid. (I have yet to see the movie!)

Anyway, if you care to read the specific excerpt, it's below.
Enjoy!

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An Excerpt from "NEVER LET ME GO" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pg. 70:

"It was a sunny afternoon and I'd gone to our dorm to get something. I remember how bright it was because the curtains in our room hadn't been pulled back properly, and you could see the sun coming in big shafts and see all the dust in the air. I hadn't meant to play the tape, but since I was there all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out of my collection box and put it into the player.

Maybe the volume had been turned right up by whoever had been using it last, I don't know. But it was much louder than I usually had it and that was probably why I didn't hear her before I did. Or maybe I'd just got complacent by then. Anyway, what I was doing was swaying about slowly in time to the song, holding an imaginary baby to my breast. In fact, to make it all the more embarrassing, it was one of those times I'd grabbed a pillow to stand in for the baby, and I was doing this slow dance, my eyes closed, singing softly each time those lines came around again:

'Oh baby, baby, never let me go...'

The song was almost over when something made me realize I wasn't alone, and I opened my eyes to find myself staring at Madame framed in the doorway.

I froze in shock. Then within a second or two, I began to feel a new kind of alarm, because I could see there was something strange about the situation. The door was almost half open - it was sort of a rule we couldn't close the dorm doors completely except for when we were sleeping -- but Madame hadn't nearly come up to the threshold. She was out in the corridor, standing very still, her head angled to one side to give her a view of what I was doing inside. And the odd thing was she was crying."

Description
So, I just read this amazing book called "NEVER LET ME GO" by Kazuo Ishiguro (which is now a major motion picture), and I felt like illustrating a scene from it because it was so vivid. (I have yet to see the movie!)

Anyway, if you care to read the specific excerpt, it's below.
Enjoy!

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An Excerpt from "NEVER LET ME GO" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pg. 70:

"It was a sunny afternoon and I'd gone to our dorm to get something. I remember how bright it was because the curtains in our room hadn't been pulled back properly, and you could see the sun coming in big shafts and see all the dust in the air. I hadn't meant to play the tape, but since I was there all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out of my collection box and put it into the player.

Maybe the volume had been turned right up by whoever had been using it last, I don't know. But it was much louder than I usually had it and that was probably why I didn't hear her before I did. Or maybe I'd just got complacent by then. Anyway, what I was doing was swaying about slowly in time to the song, holding an imaginary baby to my breast. In fact, to make it all the more embarrassing, it was one of those times I'd grabbed a pillow to stand in for the baby, and I was doing this slow dance, my eyes closed, singing softly each time those lines came around again:

'Oh baby, baby, never let me go...'

The song was almost over when something made me realize I wasn't alone, and I opened my eyes to find myself staring at Madame framed in the doorway.

I froze in shock. Then within a second or two, I began to feel a new kind of alarm, because I could see there was something strange about the situation. The door was almost half open - it was sort of a rule we couldn't close the dorm doors completely except for when we were sleeping -- but Madame hadn't nearly come up to the threshold. She was out in the corridor, standing very still, her head angled to one side to give her a view of what I was doing inside. And the odd thing was she was crying."