Oct 22
Click for full imageScott B Comments: It looks like there’s some serious industrial-grade symbolism happening on this cover, but I have no idea what it is. An albino woman with some sort of aboriginal figure superimposed (or inside her?) surrounded by Fire (and with weird fiery-squiggle aura around the woman) over a background of Earth and Water. It feels like it should really mean something but…
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October 22nd, 2012 at 10:44 am
Carlos Castaneda wants his cover back.
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:09 pm
You’d look like that, too, if it were wash day and an incandescent aboriginal was all you had to wear!
The text at Project Gutenberg. I think the bird is supposed to be Helen of Troy, which might explain the burning city at lower left, but not the pollen grain at lower right.
October 22nd, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Everybody now: Lucy in the sky with diamonds…
October 22nd, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Ancient Greece and Egypt. Now that explains the Kaaba at lower left.
October 22nd, 2012 at 5:51 pm
1) Font problems. Those E’s!
2) Superimposed Dazzle Man clearly has a dangling penis.
3) Does it say ADULT FANTASY around the unicorn’s head in top right? I can’t quite make it out.
October 22nd, 2012 at 7:54 pm
“Make sure to include a highly stylized representation of a man that has no distinguishing features besides a penis.”
October 22nd, 2012 at 10:05 pm
His painting “Annunciation” was used as the Santana Abraxas album cover.
October 23rd, 2012 at 6:21 am
Unless that’s an albino that got shut in the walk-in freezer on the first day of a long weekend while wearing blue contacts, what i think we actually have here is some kind of generic “Fantasy Woman Who Is Special, Like From D&D Or Outer Space –You Know.”
October 23rd, 2012 at 11:16 pm
The word ‘desire’ is on the cover, and there are no visible boobies. They had to put a penis there… if that can be qualified as such.
October 24th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Kate Moss on acid?
November 5th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Oh yeah, I can see how the world’s desire would be translated into that picture…I personally would have gone with something a little more subtle though…like boobies
Is it me, or do the flames around the lady look like those outlines of sitting naked ladies you find on the back of truck mud flaps?
November 6th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Now we can see for certain that it’s “Burning MAN” Festival…