Aug 18
Click for a larger image. Make sure that is really a man.
Bibliomancer Comments: They Walked Like Men. But a trained eye can tell the difference.
Published 1963
(Average: 8.00 out of 10)
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Click for a larger image. Make sure that is really a man.
Bibliomancer Comments: They Walked Like Men. But a trained eye can tell the difference.
Published 1963
(Average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading...
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Lastest Tweet
August 18th, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Dare I ask where the thumb-hole is?
August 18th, 2016 at 2:09 pm
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be…oh nevermind.”
August 18th, 2016 at 2:20 pm
…but have no fashion sense. The pinky ring is OK but the cane just doesn’t work with formal attire.
August 18th, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Relentless Hitchcock self-promotion extended to sf book-covers.
August 18th, 2016 at 3:17 pm
They walked like men. They talked like men. But never mention ‘jelly-beans’ in their presence.
August 18th, 2016 at 3:37 pm
They walked like men. They shopped like my auntie and her girlfriends.
August 18th, 2016 at 3:57 pm
“Yo! We walked like men. That’s how we rolled.”
August 18th, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Eyes or nostrils? That, Shakespeare, is the real question.
August 18th, 2016 at 4:17 pm
My compliments to the artist: most commercial illustrators, told that it was a story of people who try to look normal but have bowling-balls for heads, would have done a routine Magritte pastiche with a civil-service type in a bowler and wing-collar but not this lad. No, he’s opted for a blue-blood in evening-dress against a lilac background. Fortunately, he’s elected not to give him a monocle. That would have looked silly.
August 18th, 2016 at 5:38 pm
I bet you he speaks with the poshest English accent you have ever heard.
August 18th, 2016 at 7:17 pm
They see me rollin
They hatin
Patrolling they tryin to catch me fakin human
Tryin to catch me fakin human
Tryin to catch me fakin human
Tryin to catch me fakin human
August 19th, 2016 at 12:12 am
‘Your disguise isn’t fooling anyone, Sr. Conger. Please come off the airplane quickly and quietly.’
August 19th, 2016 at 5:27 am
They walked like men but they bowled like fools.
August 19th, 2016 at 5:28 am
@B’mancer—I think that’s my copy.
August 19th, 2016 at 5:37 am
@B.Chiclitz – That’s my home shelf I photographed it on.
Want it back?
August 19th, 2016 at 6:16 am
@Bibliomancer—nah. I’m happy with The Sheep Look Up. Also in the Science Fiction Book Club Edition.
August 19th, 2016 at 12:05 pm
… And looked like bowling balls trying to sneak out of the bowling hall!
August 19th, 2016 at 1:22 pm
Is this-
a.) a completely random piece of pre-existing artwork?
b.) vaguely representative of the book’s contents in an abstract, metaphorical way?
c.) precisely representative of the book’s contents in a concrete, literal way?
One moment…
August 19th, 2016 at 1:31 pm
And the answer is…
c.)
Of course!
August 20th, 2016 at 5:25 am
They tasted like Maltesers.
August 22nd, 2016 at 3:05 pm
There are STILL people who think the super-rich “one percent” actually look like this.
August 28th, 2016 at 1:31 am
Perhaps it’s a rebus. ‘They walked like top hat men. Bowling suit hand rings cane.’ Perhaps it’s not a rebus, sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking.
August 28th, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Pac-Man’s let himself go. The success has corrupted him.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:02 am
It’s time to separate the men from the bowling balls. I mean boys.