Jun 20
Click for larger imageDavid Jollie Comments: Don’t bother reading the book, just take a guess at what might be in it. Okay, so you think there should be an eyeball and some lips. Okay. On fire? Really? And a cow’s skull with a Tiara on? Well…. Okay.
Published 1970
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)
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June 20th, 2017 at 12:21 pm
Is that supposed to be a dolphin skull? The nostrils are shoved up between the eye sockets.
Also, that may be the moon in the background. A bit difficult to say.
June 20th, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Needs more PpAaNnTtHhEeRr. And a flaming big toe.
June 20th, 2017 at 12:55 pm
@Dead Stuff. It does appear to be the skull of some kind of cetacean, yes. As for the background, my first thought was “moon” but my second was “petri dish”. Who can say?
June 20th, 2017 at 1:11 pm
Want to play a game? Everyone guess what the book’s about. Then we’ll google it and see who got closest. No cheating!
My theory is that it concerns a man who, as the unforeseen result of a botched scientific experiment, learns to attune his nervous system to that of dolphins, a vastly superior form of life who teach him their secret philosophy. This, though never explained in any but the most confusing way, in turn enables him to achieve godlike dominion over time, space and the rest of humanity. He employs this power chiefly to force us to listen to his endless smug lectures, and also to ban drift-nets.
June 20th, 2017 at 1:27 pm
@RachelJ: I’m in! Based on the size of the eyes, I wager this is an anime.
Yukiko Kanzaki is the naive all-loving daughter of a prestigious but poor family. It’s her first time away from home to Lunar Colony 1, attending the prestigious St. Bathsheba Academy, and she’s already in trouble! She’s caught the eye of mysterious, quiet Toma and the bold yet flighty Hugo, and upset self-proclaimed ‘Idol of the Saint’ Saeko Hanashiro and her three pals Lala, Lili and Lulu. But the biggest shock is yet to come…
…because every night, poor Yukiko turns into a zombie dolphin! Who will discover her secret? And can Yukiko keep herself and her friends safe?
June 20th, 2017 at 1:34 pm
Update: it can’t be a dolphin skull because the frontal bones aren’t spatulate and the suborbital bar is too thick. Whatever it is, it’s terrible.
June 20th, 2017 at 1:38 pm
@Dead Stuff. Can’t it be a badly drawn dolphin?
June 20th, 2017 at 1:42 pm
@RachelJ: look, mate. I call that a dolphin’s skull for the record, and then they’re on to me FOR LIFE. Not worth the risk!
June 20th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
My entry: This is a parable of a poetically inclined lipless and cross-eyed dolphin who wants nothing more than to earn the laurel wreath for his epic compositions, and also he sort of wants to be not so deformed, so spends his days dreaming of uncrossed eyes and full, symmetrically shaped lips, while trying to write an epic poem on the subject of beauty which he eventually burns because it really stinks. He gets some aluminum foil and tries to make a laurel wreath for himself, but fails at that too. So he just goes away, and beyond.
June 20th, 2017 at 3:03 pm
The Flaming Lips
June 20th, 2017 at 3:28 pm
It’s obviously a panther skull.
June 20th, 2017 at 4:23 pm
@THX: silly me!
Are the lips actually germinating off the surface of the moon?
June 20th, 2017 at 6:11 pm
It’s not a skull, it’s someone who’s been warped by his worship of the Elder Gods into a squid-fish-elephant monster. The eye and mouth belong to his girlfriend, who was also so warped.
It’s a cautionary tale of Cthulhuesque death cults. And a romance.
June 20th, 2017 at 7:17 pm
Too many Cthulus! Every cover and his brother seem keen on abominably undead horrors. Why, it makes me want to—sing!
You say Cthulhu
I say Uhuru
You say it’s a porpoise
I say it has no purpose
Cthulu
Uhuru
Porpoise
Purpose
Let’s call the whole thing off!!
June 20th, 2017 at 7:35 pm
The first and only collaboration between Georgia O’Keefe and Frida Kahlo.
June 20th, 2017 at 11:24 pm
I’m pretty sure the ideas here are more entertaining than the real book.
I say someone had to bring his kid into the art department one day for emergency childcare, and the lad went nuts with a collage. The boss mistook it for the cover art, and here we are.
June 21st, 2017 at 8:17 am
In publishing circles, 1970 became known as The Day After The Sixties. Many burned out after a decade of sex, drugs and rock’n-roll — and boy, does it show.
June 25th, 2017 at 5:42 pm
The inspiration for Katy Perry’s Glasto set?