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By: R. W. Watkins (Guest IP 142.162.74.144) on 03-08-2007 16:16

Epilogue Of Sorts    It seems TIME Magazine is really on a roll lately.    Check out the cover of the July 23rd edition ('How The Democrats Got Religion'). Am I losing my marbles, or has some genius joker gone and lightly embedded something reminiscent of the classic negative images of the Turin Shroud into the front of the Dems' trademark donkey? One can even make out Christ's folded arms in the upper legs of the animal where the hair colour changes!    Also, there seems to be some wording embedded near the donkey's right ear: When one tips the magazine horizontally (so that the animal is closest to one's chest), what appears to be "WE ARE GOD" magically emerges beside the donkey's (fully visible) right eye. (Now who says that TIME is biased towards the Democrats and the dogmatic left? Rupert Murdoch should be laughing!) The really eerie thing about this bold, altruistic embed is that I actually first envisioned it in a dream! I awoke, and located it in the donkey's head first thing the next morning! Now that's the manner in which such subliminal content is supposed to communicate to one in the first place: on a subconscious level.    Then there's the July 30th edition ('We Are What We Eat'), with another cover by our old pal Arthur Hochstein--the man who put the cocks in the rocks on the cover of the July 16th edition. This time Dear Arthur seems to have almost literally stolen a page from Wilson Bryan Key's The Clam Plate Orgy. His photo-illustration features a crate full of fish, meat, breads and vegetables, almost writhing erotically. There are SEXes embedded all over the place, and a large phallic breadstick of some sort aims straight for the crotch of the spread-eagled letter 'M' in 'TIME' at the top of the cover. I think Dear Arthur realises we're on to him, and is now giving us the proverbial finger by seeing just how mischievous and archetypal he can be in his designs!

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