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The Rhine River
view of the river from the Rhine valley
The City Crest of Bonn
A Church in Bonn
Larry's German Foray
Greg
This is how I see Gregory Brabazon
Auguste Cottet
La Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
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Larry went to the BNF to do his philosophical reading
William James' Principles of Psychologoy
Painting by Claude Lorraine
Elliott had art by Lorraine in his Paris apartment.
Sorbonne
Waterloo Bridge
A Monet painting from 1920.
Picasso Painting During 1920s
La Mitrailleuse
Another Painting by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
William James
Author of Principles of Psychology
Somerset Maugham
At his house, surrounded by his work
Botticelli Self-Portrait
Elliott's Rendering of Larry?
La Seine
Dawn in the Latin Quarter
Latin Quarter
Sentient Gargoyle
9 comments:
The cover is a view of a city from aobve. It reminds me of the view I often see on the plane as I take off or land. The clouds takes up most of the space and most of the world is hidden. I believe this is the interpretation fo th world by the character in the book "Razor's Edge". Hidden. i also believe the character saw the world from far away, maybe on a plane. His experience in the air, or in the sky, was maybe a significant to his life that later affects the character.
Sarah Kim
The cover shows clouds over what looks like mountains or a city far below. I think this symbolizes salvation. Being high in the clouds is far beyond anything superficial and materialistic like the hustle and bustle of the city life, for example. When I look at the cover of the novel, the first word that pops into my mind is “peace”. Perhaps this picture is the sight that one of the characters in the book sees when he/she travels, or maybe it is just what the character imagines once they reach inner peace.
-Rachel
The cover shows clouds over what looks like mountains or a city far below. I think this symbolizes salvation. Being high in the clouds is far beyond anything superficial and materialistic like the hustle and bustle of the city life, for example. When I look at the cover of the novel, the first word that pops into my mind is “peace”. Perhaps this picture is the sight that one of the characters in the book sees when he/she travels, or maybe it is just what the character imagines once they reach inner peace.
-Rachel
I think that the cover demonstrates the ups and downs of the events that will happen in the book.
Maybe all the clouds demonstrate this sort of heaven that the main character will be in when all the problems will be solved.
-Rowena
I think the scene of the world beneath the clouds denotes that sense of
detachment that is characteristic of his eastern journey. Larry believes he should
be dead from his battlefield encounter. His new view of the world after that
event is filtered through that sense of the remote heavenly place he believes
he should be but distressingly can't achieve. --Mr. Kerouac
The art reminds me too of the view from an airplane, which gives me the idea that some travel takes place. Maybe the way we see the cover of the book reflects the way a character sees the world, literally or figuratively, on his journey to wherever he is going in life.
-erika
The cover art of A Razors Edge is from the perspective of someone who is above or in the clouds. To those who condem Larry's behavior could say that this is a reference to Larry's mental status. Ever since he returned from war, many of his friends and families believe that he has lost all motivation to be a working man and that his concerns have shifted towards philosophical questions of no concern. Moreover, one could say that Larry's head is "in the clouds" and no longer on earth. In contrast, one could make a more intillectual examination of Larry and his mental status and say that after returning from war and seeing and experienceing such horrors that his eyes had been truely opened to the world and thus he concerns himself with more signifigant activities than a job but rather the contemplation of morality and the purpose of life.
Larry is the man in my mind.
-elliott
The cover of The Razor's Edge is a view of a city from the clouds above. This is representative of the narrarator's cockiness as he beleives he can see the entire situation and elevates himself on a pedestal as high as the clouds. What the narrator fails to realize is that he is just anothre dot on the surface of the city.
T-money
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