“The greatest North American novelist west of the Mississippi living at an elevation above 3000 feet on alternate Thursdays of the third quarter of the second half of the 20th century, or so.”
~~Norman “The Qualifier” Spinrad
If someone doesn’t step in and normalize the crucifix pressure tout de suite, he’s going to wind up just as far off course as those floating Tic-Tacs, there.
Given how weird I’ve been told Dick’s stuff is, we must consider the possibility that this art is a reasonably literal depiction of something inside – although it probably isn’t.
Also: I wonder what you’d call that thing. “Totem cross”? “Cross pole”? I don’t know why you would order a totem-pole-themed giant cross, or why they would tie some guy in a straitjacket to it, but I’ve decided I’m not really interested in meeting them. (That guy could be a nutty performance artist, though.)
Anna has it right – the artist rendered a literal depiction of a description in the text of a Jesus ascending into heaven launched like a crossbow bolt off the cross based on a drug influenced vision Dick experienced.
September 7th, 2016 at 1:39 pm
“The greatest North American novelist west of the Mississippi living at an elevation above 3000 feet on alternate Thursdays of the third quarter of the second half of the 20th century, or so.”
~~Norman “The Qualifier” Spinrad
September 7th, 2016 at 1:39 pm
According to the Republican Party, this is why there are so many earthquakes in Oklahoma these days.
September 7th, 2016 at 1:42 pm
Lovecraft’s Jacob sheep?
September 7th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
I think I saw this stunt on Jackass
September 7th, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Why carnival rides are regulated.
September 7th, 2016 at 2:52 pm
And they wonder why Euro Disney is considered a poor second to Disney World.
September 7th, 2016 at 2:52 pm
That hairdo is going to cause some serious drag.
September 7th, 2016 at 2:55 pm
How the Swiss collaborateurs got their revenge on William tell.
September 7th, 2016 at 3:02 pm
If someone doesn’t step in and normalize the crucifix pressure tout de suite, he’s going to wind up just as far off course as those floating Tic-Tacs, there.
September 7th, 2016 at 3:29 pm
A Maze of Death I think I’ve found
A cover that must be
As bad as anything around
I wish I could not see.
September 7th, 2016 at 3:59 pm
An analogue crucifix? How old-fashioned…
September 7th, 2016 at 5:09 pm
The British space program reached a low when it tried to put Bertrand Russell into orbit using this contraption.
September 7th, 2016 at 5:56 pm
Okay kids, spill it – who tied David Lynch to the cross again?
September 7th, 2016 at 6:07 pm
Given how weird I’ve been told Dick’s stuff is, we must consider the possibility that this art is a reasonably literal depiction of something inside – although it probably isn’t.
Also: I wonder what you’d call that thing. “Totem cross”? “Cross pole”? I don’t know why you would order a totem-pole-themed giant cross, or why they would tie some guy in a straitjacket to it, but I’ve decided I’m not really interested in meeting them. (That guy could be a nutty performance artist, though.)
September 7th, 2016 at 7:00 pm
That straitjacket seems somewhat over-engineered in the groinal region. What’s he packing down there?
September 7th, 2016 at 7:53 pm
@Anna T: maybe not literally but the story’s about Jesus and shared hallucinations to while away a long space-journey so it’s not unrepresentative.
And you’ve only been ‘told’ how weird PKD is? Get reading! Most of the covers undersell it.
September 7th, 2016 at 8:20 pm
@Francis Boyle—maybe it’s where he stores the bolts for the crossbow.
September 7th, 2016 at 9:40 pm
WHEN U GOTTA TALK TO DARLING MISS STARLING AT FOUR AND INTERCEPT YURI GAGARIN AT FIVE
September 7th, 2016 at 10:06 pm
Anna has it right – the artist rendered a literal depiction of a description in the text of a Jesus ascending into heaven launched like a crossbow bolt off the cross based on a drug influenced vision Dick experienced.
September 7th, 2016 at 11:09 pm
@B.Chiclitz – You mean nuts & bolts?
September 7th, 2016 at 11:11 pm
Could they have at least put in parenthesis “aka Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
September 8th, 2016 at 6:16 pm
@Ray P: Of course it was inspired by drugs. Of course it was.
September 13th, 2016 at 10:23 am
On a more serious note: I really don’t like the fonts. They’re too laid-back compared to the utter madness of the artwork.