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

[David Ewers]

Hello,
This is my first time writing to you all, but as someone else here wrote, I figure I should join the fun before I get too self-conscious.
I also took a long look at the front cover layout, and it occurred to me that in:

Mason
&
Dixon

the ampersand could be the line itself.



On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Mark Thibodeau 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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