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ISBN-10: 1479774995
ISBN-13: 9781479774999
Edition: 2013
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I went ahead and integrated some of Robbie's shorter works into the one now called "The Titanic Edition", materials now also including Abe Lincoln, Pinocchio, John Lennon and Jesus keeping in mind that all individual pages don't necessarily work in and of themselves but somehow contribute to the respective specific tale, taken as a whole. Maybe it is this idea of Robbie's very real challenges with autism, that are types of parts contributing to the whole which would seem to apply in other ways, perhaps, as a message to us for our mental, if not religious benefit, general principle or rule of thumb for daily living. It is this idea that that which immediately meets the eye is not necessarily… everything underlying the whole substance either, somewhat like the inevitable iceberg that so sunk the Titanic. It becomes one of Robbie's obsessions that continues as he is still knocking the sketches out, always about this majestic ship that proved temporary/transitory, at best. Let's hope this particular interest of his doesn't reflect an exact parallel/parable of other things going on for him and/or all of us either. Sometimes actually, my wife, Lisa, and I aren't always so certain that this particular interest of his is altogether so wholesome either. It is as if, you know, the people don't end up faring so well of course, once the majestic mechanical industrial floating wonder hits the massive ice crystal to its, and by extension perhaps, to everyone else's demise too. But if we don't take it that way, that is, if this story of a sinking ship, at least as Robbie sees it, is really a type of triumph, then perhaps Robbie is on to something. A tragic event that is cool, not because of the corresponding deaths, but because the nature of a majestic ship used once, somehow still existing in our minds, becomes a worthy attainment that the birth, short-lived journey and abrupt plummeting has value beyond the tragedy of lost lives. And for Robbie, at least, that value seems to continue on if not in his mind's eye, then perhaps in his sketches and drawings. That there could be a type of silver lining to a story that doesn't end well. It still endures, hopefully in a wholesome way, as he contributes to this kind of residual art a kind of manifestation, as it were, that continues through the eyes and hands of an autistic young man, in this case Robert Marshall Haven. It serves to please us, if not feed us, as well-founded art often does.