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Perelandra cover illustration
Posted:
November 17th, 2004, 6:11 am
by Kanakaberaka
Note: This posting is too silly to include with the ongoing Perelandra reading study. So I'm posting it here.
The cover illustration on my 1979 paperback edition of Perelandra is quite surreal. It's a painting of a woman's hand holding a green apple as it erupts from the ground in the middle of a six pillared pavillion. Overhead (or should I say "overhand") is a glowing pink globe with a male outline to the left and a female outline to the right. If you ask me it looks like the doors to the men's and women's lavatories in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" !
I promise to get back to work on the study tomorrow. I just completed my move into a real house this past Monday.
Re: Perelandra cover illustration
Posted:
November 17th, 2004, 3:31 pm
by Stanley Anderson
[from k]:
>The cover illustration on my 1979 paperback edition of Perelandra is
>quite surreal.
Yes, aren't they all three from that period? They have about as much direct connection to the stories as the Ballantine paperback covers of LotR. But just because of memory value, I still like them all (sort of like that perfectly corny song from one's youth that the intellectual side of the brain says is garbage, but whose opening chords, heard on an oldies station, tears your heart out:-)
>It's a painting of a woman's hand holding a green apple as it erupts from
>the ground in the middle of a six pillared pavillion.
Yes, and do you suppose either Eve or the Green Lady had those long sharp painted fingernails?
>Overhead (or should I say "overhand") is a glowing pink globe with a
>male outline to the left and a female outline to the right.
And notice that the female side is pink and orange while the male side is blue and green. You might think that the female side would at least be green. But perhaps they represent Perelandra and Malacandra, the Oyeresu of the two planets. Notice how the only distinguishing marks between the sexes in the two images is the shape of the hips:-)
>If you ask me it looks like the doors to the men's and women's
>lavatories in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" !
I like that! And I suppose the pink globe in the middle is for "other"?:-)
--Stanley
You've nailed it
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 6:11 am
by Kanakaberaka
Yes, and do you suppose either Eve or the Green Lady had those long sharp painted fingernails?
I wonder if the hand might belong to Jadis making a cameo apperance.
>If you ask me it looks like the doors to the men's and women's
>lavatories in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" !
I like that! And I suppose the pink globe in the middle is for "other"?:-)
--Stanley
I'll have to ask Zaphod Beblebrox about that.
Ground Cover
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 7:28 am
by Guest
I suppose this is the cover you're talking about. :P
The current cover for Perelandra in South Africa looks like this:
but I've always liked the simple design...
And another cover...
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 7:37 am
by Guest
And a book from the Perelandra trilogy?
Amazing invention, Google. :)
Re: And another cover...
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 3:08 pm
by Stanley Anderson
Re: And another cover...
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 7:38 pm
by Guest
Re: And another cover...
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 8:56 pm
by Stanley Anderson
Re: Ground Cover
Posted:
November 18th, 2004, 9:02 pm
by Guest
Tinidril uncovered
Posted:
November 19th, 2004, 6:10 am
by Kanakaberaka
Book cover
Posted:
November 19th, 2004, 5:38 pm
by loeee
I have the one from the 70s, but the first one that came to hand was my aunt's copy— a 1960 printing of a 1950ish edition. I had to scan it, since I couldn't find this pic already on the web. Looks rather ominous and unpleasant, doesn't it?
Re: Book cover
Posted:
November 19th, 2004, 5:45 pm
by Stanley Anderson
Re: Perelandra cover illustration
Posted:
November 21st, 2004, 10:57 pm
by jadis
HA HA HA! i haven't seen this version!
i have the version by kinuko craft; it shows the bubble tree with the dragon wrapped around its base and the "dophin-like" fish coming up in the waves.
Re: Book cover
Posted:
November 21st, 2004, 10:58 pm
by jadis
i have never seen this. eerie. but i like it!
Re: You've nailed it
Posted:
November 21st, 2004, 10:59 pm
by jadis
the green hand is MINE i say!!!!!!!!!
mwah ha ha ha ha
jadis