'Summer on Lake Winnipesaukee' by Hieronymus Bosch


Ah, those halcyon summer days of gross public indecency, painfully sunburned genitals, and relentless horror on Lake Winnipesaukee. Bosch's cruel parents forced the sensitive artist to endure many summers at this tourist Hell when he was growing up in nearby Netherlands, MA.
In the top right corner of the picture, Bosch recalls a doomed man is forced to water-ski until his drowns while another pleasure boat sinks into the inky black water. In the foreground, a riotous naked mob overturns a picnic table and murder the picnicker. Above them, Bosch depicts a group of despairing vacationers being forced to listen to cacophonous live music, provided by dangerously oversized instruments. Finally, the artist's sensitive treatment of light draws our attention to the truly gut-wrenching New Hampshire tradition of daytrippers being devoured by a monstrous bird creature while farting ravens out of their own backsides.
It's no wonder the adult chose to spend his own vacations in an isolation tank at the Garden of Earthly Delights Recovery Clinic & Spa here in downtown Catawampus.

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