While during my normal blog reading rounds I was reading
Jake Parker and saw his rendition of Oscar Wilde for a site collecting literary portraits. I gave a stab, even being not well read. I thought of a person that would be... Dr. Niles Crane... and took his cue.
Following one of his obscure references led me to Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac who was a French dramatist and duelist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose; portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, though not nearly as large as described in Rostand's play and the subsequent works about him.
I sketched it out last night and sent it to
Seven Gettis and to my suprise he was shocked. Steven tried to get in touch with me several months ago through www.totoroforestproject.org, to request a sketch from me.
