‘My pencil,’ Mr Beavis was forced to explain. ‘Penecillus: diminutive of peniculus: double diminutive of penis; which as you know,’ he went on, at last producing the teeny weeny weeny from his inside left-breast pocket, ‘originally meant a tail.’
(Eyeless in Gaza)
Grackle
8 years ago
It isn’t even printer paper–it’s the back of some documents or an order form or something. You can see “Shipping List” upside down at the bottom. Good freakin’ grief.
Viergacht
8 years ago
This is just the laziest damn thing ever. Plain text on a white backdrop would have been better.
I’m really taken with the stuff on the opposite side of the paper. The shipping list, as Grackle pointed out, the receipt…just loverly.
Aside from the puppet-hand, anyone else bothered by the fact that by any normal European-Western Hemisphere reading method, the title is ALSO out of order? Surely, we’d read the higher-on-the-sheet text first, right? the “Because I have loved” text? Sheeeeiiiii***. Yup, it’s true. This is actually terrible.
Pidge
8 years ago
I see she learned to hold her pencil from some of my cello students. Or my cat.
As a lefty, let me just say, it is impossible to actually control a writing implement with one’s hand in that position. Not even an enormously large one with a diameter half the size of that of my forearm…
Annie Moose
8 years ago
I think this is possibly the worst cover ever featured here, and that’s a fairly impressive achievement.
I thought Annie Moose might have overstated things. But the more I look at it . . . the more I think she is right. I do think this is horrible. I do think this level of sheer terribleness might be the mostest ever reached.
I hope we never venture this far up the terrible scale again.
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I have never seen anyone hold a pencil like that.
This is just terrible.
To Catie’s point, has the author never seen anyone hold a pencil before? Or seen a pencil for that matter?
What was the author looking at when she drew this picture of a hand holding a pencil?
‘My pencil,’ Mr Beavis was forced to explain. ‘Penecillus: diminutive of peniculus: double diminutive of penis; which as you know,’ he went on, at last producing the teeny weeny weeny from his inside left-breast pocket, ‘originally meant a tail.’
(Eyeless in Gaza)
It isn’t even printer paper–it’s the back of some documents or an order form or something. You can see “Shipping List” upside down at the bottom. Good freakin’ grief.
This is just the laziest damn thing ever. Plain text on a white backdrop would have been better.
And even better with white text! 🙂
I’m really taken with the stuff on the opposite side of the paper. The shipping list, as Grackle pointed out, the receipt…just loverly.
Aside from the puppet-hand, anyone else bothered by the fact that by any normal European-Western Hemisphere reading method, the title is ALSO out of order? Surely, we’d read the higher-on-the-sheet text first, right? the “Because I have loved” text? Sheeeeiiiii***. Yup, it’s true. This is actually terrible.
I see she learned to hold her pencil from some of my cello students. Or my cat.
It is a left-handed, over the shoulder, kind of grip on that pencil. No wonder the writing looks so awful.
As a lefty, let me just say, it is impossible to actually control a writing implement with one’s hand in that position. Not even an enormously large one with a diameter half the size of that of my forearm…
I think this is possibly the worst cover ever featured here, and that’s a fairly impressive achievement.
Aaaaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk!
I thought Annie Moose might have overstated things. But the more I look at it . . . the more I think she is right. I do think this is horrible. I do think this level of sheer terribleness might be the mostest ever reached.
I hope we never venture this far up the terrible scale again.