M&D cover: The Ampersand looks like Triple SIX (666)

[Perry Noid]

I started to look at the same thing after reading this post and began to
wonder also about the way it is layered as well-the clear plastic, rough
parchment, and hard cover. And I guess I can disclose that I read the first
few pages before that and it made me recall the card table the children
would gaze into and not ever come to the end of. Kinda Borgesian, mise en
abyme, maybe; a-and the mirror reflecting everything in the room from the
same paragraph. "Mirrors and copulation are abominations because they
increase the number of men."
On Jan 4, 2015 1:33 PM, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I'm wondering about the juxtaposition of
>
> SON
>   &
> XON
>
> on the cover as it appears on the shelf.
>
> And the spine?
>
>   A
> (info)
>   I
>
> Hmmm... curiouser and curiouser...
>
> MT
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> TRP did allude to page 666 in ATD in a press release thingie for that
>> book. Pretty jokey there.
>>
>> pretty unusual ampersand so if that designer found it and he liked it,
>> he may have liked the eerie associations.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Thought I might as well put this in a separate post.
>> >
>> > I know it's foolish, but foolish can be relevant sometimes.
>> >
>> > Again, I reiterate, if this isn't an accident, and Pynchon (who I think
>> we
>> > all assume played a role in the book's design) hid the traditional Mark
>> of
>> > the Devil on the cover on purpose, what does that say about what
>> PYNCHON has
>> > to say about what America has become?
>> >
>> > Mark T. / Jerky LeB.
>>
>
>
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