How about this:
He began writing the note, trashed it, added a sentence,
trashed it again, added the last note, threw pen away,
took pills while sobbing (thus the the few remaining pills,
he dropped them), put the glass on the note, so that it won't
fly away.
I wasn't too comfortable with the idea that he just writes his
note and leaves, so I made the paper wrinkled, as if he
was pondering about this a long time, even though some lines
were already written.
Perhaps if I'd made the first line a little more gray, rather
than black, it would appear to be older, bleached out,
and then everything would fit?

Simply put, I didn't want this image to be purely realistic,
but also a little desolate, untidy. The person is just lost
in chaos.
Its meant to be a little more expressionistic rather than 100%
realistic.

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Tim Nikias
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
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"William F. Pokorny" <pok### [at] attglobalnet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Tim,
> I think the trouble is that the open pen, it's position and the ink
> spill lead us to think the note was written as the pills did their work.
> If so, why is the paper wrinkled?  The obvious explanation which remains
> is that the pill taker had been repeatedly wadding up and then unfolding
> a blank piece of paper.  I suppose somebody might do this, but I think
> it more likely the individual would be mentally thrashing over an
> already  written  note.
> Bill P.
>
> > The wrinkled paper was meant to convey that
> > the person who wrote the farewell had been
> > thinking about it sometime. Like taking the
> > note out of the trash-bin again after thinking
> > otherwise.
> >
> > And with the pills I'm not suggesting anything except
> > that he took pills to leave...
> >
> >
>

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