The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Given my limited artistic skills, I thought it best if I sketched
things out in basic geometric shapes. So I painted a simple rocket ship
with fins. I painted Snow White’s mirror with the line: “Remember
when I told you that you were the fairest? I lied!”
On the ceiling, Jack and I wrote the words “I’m trapped in the
attic!” We did the letters backwards, so it seemed as if we’d imprisoned
someone up there and he was scratching out an S.O.S.
Because I loved chess, Tammy painted chess pieces (she was the
only one of us with any drawing talent). While she handled that, I
painted a submarine lurking in a body of water behind the bunk bed. I
drew a periscope rising above the bedspread, in search of enemy ships.
I always liked the story of Pandora’s box, so Tammy and I painted
our version of it. Pandora, from Greek mythology, was given a box with
all the world’s evils in it. She disobeyed orders not to open it. When the
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