Re: [BKARTS] Fw: latest New Yorker cover

[Rachel Hoff <rhoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But how can the alien read english (or any human language for that 
matter?)  It must be a picture book.

Marilynn Brandenburger wrote:
> I had to see the cover, so I went right to the New Yorker online.  
> Here's the link.  
> <http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=T5XCNA096T488GPFMWH4MS7PH0X96905&sitetype=1&sid=130852&did=4>  
> for the rest of you who were intriguted by this.  Thanks, John.
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> Marilynn Brandenburger
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> On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:31 AM, John & Carolyn Deason wrote:
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> > The latest New Yorker (June 8) cover is clever:  a visitor from outer 
> > space is sitting in the street of an empty city, which is devoid of 
> > human beings. The ground is littered with hundreds of I-pods and other 
> > useless digital doo-dads that hold the story of our 
> > civilization....all of them inpenetrable and useless to him. The 
> > visitor sits amongst this detritus holding a tattered BOOK, like an 
> > archeologist who has discovered words on some papyrus scroll, finally 
> > able to understand what happened to us. A great comment on our digital 
> > future.
> > John Deason
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