After a long hiatus, I just randomly started drawing a face and finished it after a few minutes of scribbling (O.K., and then I worked on it some more with MS Paint). As is usually the case, I started out without any particular ideas in mind as to what sort of expression it should bear, other than "big round eyes". Now it reminds me of the preta...
[In Buddhist cosmology the preta are the unfortunate beings who are reincarnated -- possibly from prior lives as human beings -- into a life of unrequited desire and longing, typically for nourishment (hence their other name of "hungry ghosts"), but more broadly, the objects of their desire can be anything, including such repellent things as corpses and feces]
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