Pretty from the highway / GR cover art / Bencoolen

[Joe Allonby]

I was almost banned from the Econolodge chain of motels for life as a result
of an incident in Charleston WV.

On 5/3/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> Sorry, I meant to refer to Charleston, WV and to send to the list
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> From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net [mailto:mikebailey at speakeasy.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:59 AM
> To: 'jd'
> Subject: Pretty from the highway / GR cover art / Bencoolen
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> Really pretty from the Interstate is Charlottesville, with that golden
> dome
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> GR cover art - if I were in the consulting supply chain, there would be a
> picture of a ukulele on the cover somewhere (in fact, Slothrop's desk with
> the jigsaw pieces?  Hard to get that kind of detail, tho...perhaps the movie
> version on HDTV, prominent in the title montage)
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> I have let mentions of Bencoolen wash over me while reading M&D, but
> finally looked it up.  It's in Sumatra, maybe that's implicit in the syntax
> (M&D poring over their imaginary map of Sumatra on shipboard)
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> also, the lone fifer during the 2nd sea battle - I'd use him in my cover
> art were I on the M&D cover commission
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