by Stanley Anderson » November 17th, 2004, 3:31 pm
[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