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

[Elisabeth Romberg]

SON
  &
jaXON


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> Den 4. jan. 2015 kl. 22.32 skrev Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
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> Now I'm wondering about the juxtaposition of 
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> SON 
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> XON
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> on the cover as it appears on the shelf.
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> And the spine?
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>   A
> (info)
>   I
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> Hmmm... curiouser and curiouser...
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> MT
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>> 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.
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>> 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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