The Maze (painting) it undigestible. The skull in the painting has been opened up by ribbon, to suggest the work of the doctors at the mental hospital, attempting to make a proper diagnosis. Kurelek depicted the rat spirit as inert, unwilling to leave his prison even though it has been opened up for him. This was Kurelek's way of showing his doctors what their job was. He writes, in his autobiography, "Now clean me out, I challenge you scientists, and put me back together again - a happy, balanced, mature, fulfilled personality. Lift that rat out and unwind him and let him run
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl () It was adapted as an episode of the television series "Ray Bradbury Theater" (January 23, 1988) as "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" with Michael Ironside and Robert Vaughn. The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. It was first published in "Detective Book Magazine" in November 1948 (cover date: Winter) as "Touch and Go". The story was re-titled and published as "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" in "EQMM" in January 1953. (Cover image: ) Mr. Acton begins the