covers

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Peter Giordano cites:
"I say:
V. =  Kind of a Salvador Dali thing - A big V in an odd perspective drawing
(My memory
here is fuzzy)
 
COL49 = Tyrestro symbol drawn in what looks like sand
 
GR = This is a classic - An orange cover with a an arch and what looks like
a bomb blast
on the horizon"


V.is more in the line of Di Chirico:  Woman with windblown hair and dress in
front of monolithic V. (period included).  Lines recede to vanishing point
in distant horizon.  Stones on plain, rocky hills in background.  It's all
very blue--and her shadow forms a V (no period).  
Actually, it's all more like Magritte meets Di Chirico!



GR--Yes, orange (and yellow, with GRAVITY'S RAINBOW in blue, "Thomas
Pynchon, author of V. and THE CRYING OF LOT 49 IN WHITE) over a yellow/whitish
sun? fireball? above silhoutted rooftops of (presumably) London.

(And the endpapers on the hardcover COL49 were interesting--the letters
W.A.S.T.E. repeated in a straight line across!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)