Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Horror of the Beast

Warning: some images in this blog are not suitable for the faint hearted. 

In a classroom, as well as in a professional environment, the appearance of a mouse is one of the only occasions when you are allowed to get hysterical. “A mouse, a mouse! Get it out of here before I die!” screams from an otherwise properly behaved professional standing on her chair or desk, is a call for the brave cavaliers to pick up whatever weapon they can lay their hands on: books, brooms and rubbish bins, to scare away the monster before it launches its deadly attack on innocent humans.

No wonder that even the mighty elephant is horrified when such a beast appears. So, as part of the tough military regime I subject my children to, I decided to expose them to the horrors of the beast in the deep dark forest. It was a grey, cold day when we arrived. At first we found no tracks at all. But just when we considered giving up and return empty handed – yet alive, we were attacked. The images below are the only ones you’ll ever see of a person who survived such an attack to tell the story.









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