couple 3 layer dust jacket

[Joseph T]

Been thinking about this and have reconsidered, expanded and re- 
written  an earlier post.

  Wouldn't bet on intentionality here, but beside the way the phrase  
"a couple three" captures American idiom, it also makes me think of  
the book cover which is not  actually double refraction but double  
refraction with an alternate font sandwiched in between . The Font in  
between is the same as the capitals of the  text Font   This is also  
suggestive of an intermediary alternative between the original light  
transmitted image and the fainter polarized refraction  of that  
original "light message". I would suggest that the intermediating  
text is the author's version of  "what the world might be with a  
minor adjustment or 2".

Taking the idea bit further, History is honored as source and ground  
but is transmitted with reasonable realism in the fictional but  
emotionally, intellectually real lives of the Traverse family, the  
Rideouts, Tyrian, Yashmeen etc.  shuttling between these two and  
between past and present are the more clearly stylized/imaginative  
chums, Padzhitnoff , sand submarines and human shaped northern bad- 
asses.
But you might rearrange this basic idea in different ways with  
satisfying results. The anarchists as intermediary between the  
colonizers and the colonized.
The shamanic figures as intermediaries between those caught in time  
and the timeless ground of being.

There is the phenomenal world of light, energy, time...and refracted  
with remarkable verisimilitude the scientific/ mathematical  
description. and sandwiched between the laws of reality and the  
mathematically described  laws of physics is the ever variable  
interpretation.