Sep 06
Click for full imageFrank Comments: I get the idea the artist read the teaser on the first page, “WHAT’S SO SPLENDID ABOUT WESTERN CULTURE THAT YOU WANT TO SPREAD IT ALL OVER THE GALAXY? I TELL YOU THERE’S SOMETHING ON TRIOPUS THAT CAN NEVER BE REMADE.” …and painted something that you probably wouldn’t want to remake even if you could.
Published 1969
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September 6th, 2012 at 9:53 am
Artist to friend 12 hours before work next day “Hey, so this LSD stuff lasts less that 12 hours right?”
September 6th, 2012 at 10:36 am
I don’t know what you’re complaining about, I can see two eyes, a nose and a mouth. OK, maybe three eyes, a beak, and… er… Well, it was good enough for Picasso!
September 6th, 2012 at 10:41 am
James, given it is 1969 it could have been that he asked at the weekend: “So this brown acid is not going to last 3 days like that stuff at Woodstock, is it?”
September 6th, 2012 at 11:03 am
“I don’t know about you guys… but I am sending this omelet back!”
September 6th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Dammit, another flashback while I’m at work! Or am I just browsing GSS??
September 6th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
My eyes!
September 6th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Part of 2001 that got left on the cutting room floor?
September 6th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
The sunny-side up version doesn’t really look much more promising.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
That’s a lovely piece of art, darling. Crayons, was it? Here, let mummy put it on the fridge door.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
The desperate pandering to hippies is typical of the period…
September 6th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
MOONS OF TRIPE
September 6th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
I love this cover… covers don’t need to explain exactly what’s in the book — Powers is a genius and one of the best out there (this isn’t his best by a LONG shot but still).
September 7th, 2012 at 3:24 am
Octopus – Oct + Tri… Triopus. Some three legged sea creature is it?
September 7th, 2012 at 6:13 am
I love the group of tiny, glow-eyed people/robots freaking out at the very bottom of this landscape. You’d think that, by now, the locals would be used to living in a crummy psychedelic hell-scape, but here we are.
September 7th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Of course! ‘Moons of Triopus’ is an anagram of POT FUSION ROOMS! That explains so much.
Also:
SOUP INFORMS TOO
UNIFORM SOOT OPS
MOOT PROFUSIONS
SUMO PORNO FOIST
SPOON FRUITS MOO
and, its true contribution to GSS:
TO POISON FORUMS
September 11th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
I said I wanted mushrooms on my pizza!
September 17th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
“Published 1969”
I feel confident that nothing else I read today will been less surprising than that.
January 5th, 2014 at 10:02 am
I got a bad case of triopus and had to go on a two-month diet, I lost twenty pounds, it was awful. Triopus? Don’t talk to me about triopus!
June 12th, 2015 at 10:26 pm
What’s so splendid about marmalade that you want to spread it all over the galaxy?
June 25th, 2015 at 8:53 pm
Never shine a black light round a WC in a West End club.
April 23rd, 2022 at 9:07 pm
Making $$$ 101. Re-title the book ‘Moons of Priapus”, donate to public libraries, wait for the great unwashed to raise a fuss, which will lead to a counter binge of buying.
April 24th, 2022 at 3:30 am
@fred: Sounds like a good idea (Step 4: PROFIT!), but I’d rather the counter binges of buying went to, you know, good books.
Especially for the kids.
(The people who always wail “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” never have the young’uns real best interests at heart.)