The cover

[Richard Melo]

Admittedly, I have only kept up with a few of the posts about the cover, so
forgive me if this is a dead horse. From seeing the galley and the online
photo of the person holding the hardcover edition, it looks to me the cover
is itself a photograph of a worn old book called Against the Day. In theory,
the cover shows a book within a book -- with the outer book as merely a
representation of the inner book.

The image in the center of the stamp when the book is right-side-up looks
like an avocado with vines growing around it. When the book is held
upside-down, the stamp looks almost like an American quarter with a fangled
George Washington image and gibberish Eastern writing along the perimeter.
In the gibberish, it almost looks like there is a pattern with the numbers
314 printed twice.

rm


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Richard Melo
Portland, Oregon
http://misconstrue.net
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