Origins of the GIANT

Where does the GIANT start? Where was it born? I lived in Connecticut a few years back. I woke up from a dream one morning. A pretty powerful one. Strong enough for me to dig out an old sketchbook from a few years back and sketch out the dream (This was something I didn’t do much back then). One image of a giant skeleton on some giant table surrounded by this futuristic fence (probably mentally lifted from Jurassic Park or Starship Troopers) sitting in the woods.

The other image was of a flotilla of ships, sailing to sea. On the bow of one of the ships was a banner with an inscription. I wrote: “text about noble giant killed by man…Honorary funeral @ sea” (This I know I took from the Civil War documentary by Ken Burns. More precisely the style of the newspapers, how they would spell out text in sidebars).

One page. I put this together in late 2003, most likely judging from the pages before and after. Then I had another dream, which I didn’t write down, but remembered. That of a man driving to New York, or leaving New York, heading west? I’m not sure. Maybe it was all one in the same.

And from there? Things just fell into place.