If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
The early bands of people huddled in their tents and their drafty castles wandering the land for buffalo or knightly adventures.
Through much research, they advanced. They went from plains of freedom and forests of magic to 30-year mortgages and days destroyed in office buildings like so many rocks poured into a grinder. Their ancestors had time to stop and smell the flowers, but their modern successors didn’t. There is no time for pollination of the mind when the pollution of social media is so handy.
Was that worth it? All the knowledge in the world, and not a moment to read a book.
Some of the creativity today is in the placement of the cubes. This is one of those covers where some of the cubes had their place on the cover before they had their place in the story, putting an extra constraint on the final product.
Some of them are obvious even if you didn’t grow up with the standup comedy of Steve Martin or you only know him through Only Murders in the Building. For example, I put the magnifying glass where I did so it would look like he’s pinching a tiny one between his fingers, and the book sits directly on top of “Written Word.”
The other one might only be familiar to readers of a certain age who remember some of his on stage gags, like the “arrow through the head” prop he sometimes wore. Here’s a 1978 photo by Marianna Diamos from the UCLA Library of Special Collections:
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