<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Jeff Wilson <<a href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12/14/2010 8:54 AM, Son of Witz wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:41 AM, David Stockhoff<<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a></a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yes, the denotation of the symbol is important: Here Be Monsters. Because monsters can come out of the mirrors.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The connotation remains DANGER.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol LOOKS like.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I see that it is mostly a medical term for monstrous abnormality and tumours and such., but I don't find associated symbols with an image search.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I own the comic that comes up in the keyword search, Teratoid Heights. It's a lovely gem of mutant monster stream of concious lo fi comix, but it doesn't help me draw the door to this chamber of mirrors. Anyone have a suggestion?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>The two-headed silhouette is about the most basic monster symbol. It covers notional multi-headed creatures as well as the most common and lurid visibly "monstrous" birth defects in humans an animals, multiple or split body parts due to mutation, replicaiton errors, cell division problems, and recessives like harelip and hyposeal.</span><br><span></span><br><span>From a more modern, brand-recognition standpoint, you might want to put pointy bits on the facing head surfaces so it's not mistaken for Janus or Lucifer or our Typhon.</span></blockquote><br><div></div><div>I had a similar thought about a two headed symbol, but I figured in this context it would only read Typhon.</div></body></html>