Radio 4’s programme on anatomy has just reminded me of what happened at secondary school when I was 14.
We had to draw a cockroach for one of our biology classes. I’m terrified of cockroaches. The fact that this one was preserved in formaldehyde didn’t make my terror any less. I was the first to finish drawing it.
The following week, it came back with the comment: “This doesn’t look like a cockroach at all. Do it again.”
More haste, more agony.
(Singapore, 1960s)
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