It's like he was waging some kind of inner struggle. "Spherical...no, cylindrical...but spherical is pretty good...nah, it should really be cylindrical...but I don't want it to look too phallic...ah, screw it, I'll just slap some fallopian tubes on the front and if anyone calls it Escher-esque I'll say that was intentional."
It sure is alien, though. Jim Woodring kind of alien.
From The Skylark of Valeron, Astounding Stories (January 1935). Story by Edward E. Smith with art by Elliot Dold.
I see a uterus....a vast uterus
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ReplyDeleteIt's like he was waging some kind of inner struggle. "Spherical...no, cylindrical...but spherical is pretty good...nah, it should really be cylindrical...but I don't want it to look too phallic...ah, screw it, I'll just slap some fallopian tubes on the front and if anyone calls it Escher-esque I'll say that was intentional."
ReplyDeleteIt sure is alien, though. Jim Woodring kind of alien.
Avast Uterus would be a great name for a Bond girl, or a band.
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