This drawing, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” illustrates the lines: “It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen …” In a file marked “Ideas,” Robert has a copy of this image along with photocopies of diagrams of the human nervous system taken from library books. One of Robert’s key interests is making invisible thoughts and psychological states visible to the viewer. The magic lantern is a metaphor for the artistic process. The X-ray like projection suggests both a giant cinema screen and the medical investigation of a patient’s inner body. This cartoon prefigures many X-ray images from the Illness and Healing series.