bigRed

June 6, 2011 9:09 am Regarding the 'crow' and the inkwell on the front cover, is it not a reference to the riddle like Raven paradox? Just thinking it could be a raven and remembered the confusing paradox derived from the hypethesis 'All ravens are black' or 'everything that is not black is not a raven', which though meaning the same can make the seeing green apple, a non-black non-raven, evidence that all ravens are black. The paradox comes from the reality of common sense in that we know apples being green (or red) gives us nothing about ravens. The more I think about it I think I'm just finding anything in it, just the black bird and the black ink really. Maybe it's a bit of decor in the foreground, where he's been writing the riddles and the bird's just a bit of theme and ambiguous symbolism (to get you looking). Maybe a nod to another wordsmith, Poe. I think everyone's overthinking it, as intended, and now I rambled. Nevermind.