Flex Mentallo

Elegy

Whoa! Good one! (thumbs u Yeah man. that book is so scarce that at one time there was even debate if it had ever been printed.

I'm not so sure. Not that it couldn't be the case but it seems to knock-out the text and make it unreadable to some extent. Unless the drawn image of the barbed wire somehow shifted position on the sheet before press? I have seen these same marks in an Atlas PCH book too, now I'll have to see if I can remember which book! Jayman is right rjpb. The Red Tomato is on me. I have a reading copy and just checked it out. When I look more carefully, I see that the spirals (that with a cursory inspection I had thought were designed) are in fact a printing defect, because they loop into the text underneath. .

Not too clear in the scan, but if I recall correctly it is barbed wire.

A rare opportunity for me to bump this thread. Great cover and book length story by Jerry Robinson. (And eat your heart out adamstrange, with your paltry 9.6!)

Digha...

Very early in the morning on the following day we are planning to travel to a coastal resort called Digha. Regrettably some of us will have had the misfortune to be served bad food at the wedding and will not be able to travel. Lucina and Lilufar's mother, Manju, is particularly ill, so Lilufar will remain behind to care for her. Luckily for me I have not been affected.

The wedding stretches over three days. On the third day the newly married couple will travel to the groom's village to stay with his family.

Once again the main preoccupation seems to be to stuff the blissful couple with vast quantities of food. If there was an actual ceremony it was private, and I didn't see it.

...and the wedding proper commences.

The groom arrives in his winged chariot from a distant village....

Everyone is dressed in their Sunday best.

Wedding day. These Mir girls I have known since early childhood will all too soon become brides themselves.

Given the large number of well wishers passing through, by the end of this the bride is in a food coma.

We offer her a mouthful of food, and leave a small gift of money.

Friends and neighbors are invited to pay our respects to the bride.