Looking at my brainstormed list of words got me thinking about a story I read a while ago about an American doctor called Carl Tanzler and the patient he fell in love with, Elena Milagro De Hoyas.
Carl lavished her with gifts and became a close family friend, though Elena was diagnosed with and died of tuberculosis before anything happened between them romantically. Upon her death, Carl insisted on paying for her to be given a crypt rather than being buried. He would go to visit the crypt regularly until one day he decided it would just be easier to steal her body and take it back to his house to save himself the effort of having to go all the way to the cemetery to spend time with her. As the body decomposed in his home he would replace the parts that fell off it using home-made prosthetics, to the point that when she was finally discovered by the authorities the result was a frankenstein type amalgam of mummified human flesh and papier mache.
Although this is a pretty grizzly story I think that at its centre lies a feeling of loneliness and despair on the part of Carl Tanzler. True love eh?
I would like to take this story and use it as inspiration for my animation. As I have only got 30 seconds to tell it, a lot of the factual details will have to be ignored but I'm sure that I can take something from it.
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