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Joachim Comments: In case you didn’t notice, there’s a purple fetus in anamnioticplastic bag above my melting face.
Published 1968
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Joachim Comments: In case you didn’t notice, there’s a purple fetus in anamnioticplastic bag above my melting face.
Published 1968
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January 23rd, 2013 at 9:47 am
This year’s alternative choice for Christmas tree decoration.
January 23rd, 2013 at 11:18 am
This is what happens when you EAT YOUR MAKE-UP! Where are the cha-cha heels I demanded?!
January 23rd, 2013 at 1:15 pm
I’m glad I don’t eat breakfast. My appetite is completely gone now.
January 23rd, 2013 at 1:15 pm
So Jemima’s tried to crucify Hamble, but where are Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty.
Oh, yes, Humpty’s in Oakland.
January 23rd, 2013 at 1:29 pm
I have always taken the title to be “Counter-Clock World”, a world that runs counter to the clock.
But this cover makes me think it’s “Counter- Clock World”, an instruction to go against Clock World.
The cover also puts me off ever reading it!
January 23rd, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Philip K Dick was known to use drugs. Obviously the artist did as well. Perhaps to get in touch with his inner Dick.
That doesn’t sound right. Or comfortable. Oh well..
January 23rd, 2013 at 4:07 pm
I’ll stop the world and melt your face…
You’ve seen the foetus and it’s kind of grungy in the tree
There’s nothing you and I won’t do…
January 23rd, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Curses, GSS. I put carefully place spaces in my earlier post (#5), but the GSS parser has eliminated them, rendering my post even more nonsensical than I intended it to be. Grrr.
For the record, I was trying to make a distinction between:
(a) Counter-Clock……….World,
and
(b) Counter-…………Clock World.
There. That’s got even with you.
January 23rd, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Hmm, meant to write FETUS — can you change it please 😉
January 23rd, 2013 at 8:50 pm
@Joachim: if we could change it, WE ALL WOULD. 😉
January 23rd, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Smoke provided by David Crosby.
January 23rd, 2013 at 11:05 pm
OH, just checked my email with the image to him and I spelled it correctly — clearly he accidentally changed the spelling… alas…
January 24th, 2013 at 1:01 am
Same word, British spelling… would be my UK dictionary I’m afraid!
I’ve changed to a compromise just to be annoying 😛
January 24th, 2013 at 2:04 am
Ahh, makes sense.
According to wikipedia, the UK spelling is a hypercorrection of an INCORRECT etymology of the Latin (spelling: fetus) by Isidore of Seville 6th century…. just so you know.
January 24th, 2013 at 4:54 am
This is what happens when you design your cover using only crap you found while rummaging through dumpsters.
January 24th, 2013 at 11:30 am
#15: The heads in the dumpsters near where I live aren’t nearly as good-looking.
January 24th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
A mistake by Isidore of Seville is the substance of most PKD plots. Whose mistake this cover is I shudder to think – when I have nightmares about Nigella Lawson and Christmas trees they rarely contain polystyrene crucifixes, just ginger cake.
January 26th, 2013 at 1:02 pm
I have this edition too. It predates Nigella Lawson by some years.
Yes, it is Counter-clock World, time is running backwards. Not yet turned into a major motion picture, but that can’t be far off.
January 27th, 2013 at 12:44 am
Looks like one of those collages they force you into making in the eighth grade, then you have to say how “meaningful” it is as its supposed to be a commentary on some socio-politcal hot topic, instead of a bunch of random crud you threw onto a piece of cardboard in desperation, because collages really aren’t your thing.
Or was I the only one who had an art class like that?
January 27th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Dear parents: if this is your child’s idea of a good art project for school, seek professional help immediately.
January 28th, 2013 at 2:22 am
My art teacher was more concerned with which side of her own face was more attractive — now she probably looks like that lady on the cover…
January 31st, 2013 at 2:02 pm
“Do you think this fetus gives my hair more volume? Be honest…..”
May 3rd, 2016 at 7:36 pm
@TW: allow me to be the first to nominate the ‘yuk’ tag, and here. This one has given me the willies ever since it was posted.
September 23rd, 2021 at 7:50 am
That reminds me, I need to think up a new Halloween display for the house.