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On 1/2/2011 5:25 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:<br>>> *From:* Son of Witz <<a ymailto="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org" href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>><br>>> **<br>>> > Re: Shirtless. Don Maitz's cover painting for the hardcover BotNS SF<br>>> Book Club Edition shows<br>>> > his chest, in shadow. Mostly you don't notice it, the cloak dominates.<br>>><br>>> Not a bad way to handle it, I think.<br>>><br>>> > It's a nice enough painting, but TE is held out like a throbbing hardon,<br>>><br>>> I though you might be exaggerating till I looked at the picture.<br>>><br><span>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079">http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079</a></span><br>>><br>>> > and Severian is framed by a huge full
moon,<br>>><br>>> (Which is insufficiently green. And where's the red sunlight?)<br>><br>>?? The red sunlight is rather prominent at the lower left.<br><br>That's sunlight? Maybe I have no idea what the cover is supposed to show, beside Severian and Lune.<br><br>> If you mean <br>> the grazing reflection from Lune, it's accurate if you agree with my <br>> hypothesis that it's glassed over like the Botanic Gardens.<br><br>It certainly seems reasonable, but the glass shouldn't interfere with the green that Severian mentions seeing, and a glassed sphere would just have one highlight from the sun, I think.<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br><br>-- <br>Jeff Wilson - <a ymailto="mailto:jwilson@io.com" href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a><br>Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana<br><span>< <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tamut.edu/CIL">http://www.tamut.edu/CIL</a>
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