Sunday, June 9, 2013
Page 18: what curios of signs in this allaphbed!
I’ve finally been forced to revise this old one in the interests of an ULTRA-SECRET PURPOSE. An anonymous tipster informed me that I’d made numerous mistakes in the Arabic of the previous version, and in any case, I’d always intended to do it in something approximating real Arabic calligraphy. I did my best to proofread, but if I’ve made any new mistakes, it might be best not to tell me...
6 comments:
Can you put this up for sale? I'll buy a copy. Funny, I was on the verge of asking you to put the 1st draft up for purchase.
At first, I regretted the loss of the green inkspot as a tree, and the black inkspot as a smoke cloud from a stack in the first version. But you've re-conceived them (symbolically even!) in a more interesting way in this version. Great work.
This has always been my favourite (all three versions now, this one being the best yet).
Great work!
Thank you both! I’ve always been very proud of the concept of this one, but I was never quite happy with the execution.
@onomacritos: Yes, this is now for sale on my store:
http://society6.com/StephenCrowe/what-curios-of-signs-in-this-ollaphbed_Print?promo=192c30
Plus, Society6 is offering free shipping until the end of Sunday! (Which is Bloomsday, of course, but I'm pretty sure that's just a coincidence.)
Thank you Stephen. Just ordered the Stoop... print, along with the last/first page print, which was only available in a small size. Looking forward to getting them mounted once they arrive.
Hi, long time fan here. Just wanted to let you know there is a small mistake in the Hebrew...
The last two words on the bottom left
should read ויהי-כן instead of ויה-יכן, i.e. the yod (י) should be moved to the left of penultimate word from the left(i.e. immediately to the right of the maqqef, a hyphen-like horizontal line).
Hope this helps; it's a great piece!
Ugh, I knew it! The lesson is, never try at anything. Or proofread.
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