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

[Mark Kohut]

in a great Tillie Olsen story, she describes the long-married couple's
marriage marvelously as the fully-seen twisted, gnarled tree (or two
growing together?) in their backyard.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Laurel & Hardie
> Burns & Allen
> Abott & Costello
> Lucy & Desi
>
> In other words: Marriage.
> Marriage in all its foibles.
> A classic construct.
>
> If this ampersand is a line, a border, it is all twisted, as it is always in
> a marriage.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> NICE.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:40 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > 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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