4. Graphics: Footnotes and off-page links:

1. The swap-over in the masthead at the top of this edition of 'pHpubs' consists of potential covers for a pair of novels belonging to 'The Launching of the Cosmic Express' Tetralogy. They are 'The War of the Apocalyptics' and 'The Trigregos Gambit'. A variation of the WarPoc cover can be found in the Covers Gallery.

2. The 'Alt Txt' mouse-over for the front cover graphic for 'The Trigregos Gambit' in the Hestia Housekeeping section of pHpubs is: "Title reads 'The Trigregos Gambit', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; a smaller version of the Ian Fry drawn Vetala figure can be found in the Summer 2002 pHpubs; the complete potential dust-cover can be found in the Covers Gallery;

3. The mouse-over behind the 'Bad Rhad's a regular snake' graphic reads: "Fanciful gif of Bad Rhad with pipe-like snake and the head of a Costa Rican crater, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; the image of the parrot snake is taken from a postcard I bought in Costa Rica in 2003; the photography credit is given to M y P Fogden; the website listed on the postcard is www.icarcr.com; I bought the postcard of the Costa Rican crater around the same time; there is no website listed on its back but the photographer is given as Steve Pace; Bad Rhad's body is taken from the the front cover of pH-6; the artist was Verne Andru; the reason I say that about Bad Rhad can be found here;

4. The 'Alt Txt' mouse-over for the tree sprite type reads: "A photo of a faerie stuck in a tree taken by Jim McPherson in Vancouver Canada"; I wasn't going to reprint the original shot I diddled with in order to come up with Smiler's head in the next graphic down for fear the tree sprite might be shy (he or she certainly isn't at all communicative) but, as is the case with folks who don't vote, I decided silence amounted to acquiescence; as noted a number of times over the years I've been web-publishing PHANTACEA, sometimes faeries do get stuck in trees;

5. The mouse-over behind the 'Smiler's just a faerie' reads: "Fanciful gif of Bad Rhad as a tree sprite, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; as above, Bad Rhad's body is taken from the the front cover of pH-6; the artist was Verne Andru; the reason I say that about Bad Rhad can be found here;

6. The 'Alt Txt' mouse-over for the corner graphic prepared for 'The Trigregos Gambit' dust-cover is: "Title reads 'The Trigregos Gambit', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; most of the images that went into this collage were taken from the web; the green-skinned Vetala was taken from the front cover of pH-5, artwork by Verne Andru, colour by Ian Bateson; the aircraft seemingly coming through the teleportal, the mirrored egg, the corona around the mirror and the mirror itself, they're all pertinent to Gambit; additional explanations as to what went into the collage and why can be found here;

7. Much the same holds for this one; its 'Alt Txt' mouse-over reads: "Gif entitled 'The Trigregos Talismans', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005", the only image I didn't take from the web was that of the Susasword; it was taken from the front cover of pH-5, artwork by Verne Andru, colour by Ian Bateson; the reason I used a moon-mirror is because, in the revised version of Gambit, Thrygragos Byron's last surviving, firstborn daughter, Umashakti Silvercloud, succumbs to the allure of the, to devils, Three Accursed Objects; in that respect she's no different than Freespirit Nihila and Methandra Thanatos;

8. Logo reads: "A Peculiar Perspectives Photo Essay"; there's been plenty of them since I started 'pH-Webworld' in 1996; here's a link to a list of some of them; my favourite, and most personal remains: 'Sedon's Head - Inspiration or Destination';

9. This collage was prepared as a giveaway card for 'The Trigregos Gambit'; it has two names; the first is reflected in its mouse-over: "JPEG entitled 'The Outstretched, Grasping Hand', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; the line comes from a Motorhead song called 'Orgasmatron'; the other name would be 'Bad Rhad Wants It All'; the big, black and white drawing of Bad Rhad is by Ian Fry, circa the late Eighties; the little shot of Bad Rhad's head behind it is taken from the front cover of pH-6; the artist was Verne Andru; the demon figure and his head in a hood is as here; the Nihila figure is as here; the Grasping Hands are from a photo I took of a statue I spotted in Ankara, Turkey, in 2003; the line "Take a memo, Morg. Invite to coronation." comes from 'Endgame-Gambit 5'; the woman tee-shirted on the Inquisition-era brown robe is suggestive of the Morrigan (Morg, Superior Sarpedon), who wears a debrained demon in both 'Ringleader's Revenge' and Gambit; it is, my notes indicate, from a painting by Lord Leighton; the little gargoyles in the bottom left hand corner are from a postcard I found in Oxford, England; the triangular stick-woman is the Delos Pyrame;

10. The 'Alt Txt' mouse-over for the graphic featuring the Cretan Snake Goddess figurine reads: "A Cretan Snake Goddess, images put together by Jim McPherson, using PHOTOSHOP, in 2005"; I scanned in the figurine's image from the cover of a book I bought in Crete circa 1995 ('Knossos', by Antonis Vassilakis, Adam Editions, no date or photo credit given); the hood and brownish robe worn by a priestly sort belonging to the Spanish Inquisition during the course of the Conquest of Mexico was taken from a photo I snapped during one of the more recent 'Travels in my Pants'; the brown-robed priests and priestesses of Sraddha would wear something similar in Gambit; the mouse-over for the collage below reads: "Combination of Snake Goddess images with Delos Pyrame, collage and photos by Jim McPherson, 2005"; it emphasizes the pareidolia of the goggle-eyed monster where others see bared, porcelain breasts; the Delos Pyrame beneath the goddess's snaky right hand is as next note down;
    

    
    
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11. The 'Perpetual Presence' collage has as its 'Alt Txt' mouse-over: "Collage of Pyrame Silverstar as 'The Perpetual Presence', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005"; I spotted the mosaic that forms the background to this collage on Delos, in the Aegean Sea, in 2004 (a small, full shot of it is in the collage's bottom left hand corner; it's also at the bottom of the giveaway card discussed above); it's something like 2,500 years old and when I saw it I immediately realized it has to represent Pyrame as she often appears, with a tetrahedral head; serendipitously enough, as noted above, for something like 500 years Pyrame co-ruled Phaistos in Crete, which isn't all that far south of Delos, as the Lady Tanith;
    - the 3-eyed woman blowing on the globe is from a photo I took in Mexico City of an advertisement of some sort; in my experience photos of men or women with three eyes are exceedingly rare so I couldn't resist snapping it; similarly the single eye-frame was also taken in Mexico City in 2005;
    - in 'Pregame-Gambit 7' the Smiling Fiend claims that the Pyrame-Lilith two-thing (the joint, possessive half-mother of the mortal Sed-sons so essential to the Moloch Sedon maintaining the Cathonic Zone that separates the Inner from the Outer Earth) was Queen Gomorrah to his King Sodom; that during the Male Entity's 7th Lifetime, the demon-devils Sodom and Gomorrah survived an assassination attempt by asteroid; and that, self-evidently, their eponymous cities didn't do so well; be that as it may, the Pyrame-Lilith two-thing isn't (aren't?) doing at all well in 'Coueranna's Curse' 9: "Cry Helios";
    - for even more on Pyrame check out these two gold-mining boxes;

12. Finally the tiled image I'm using on this edition of pHpubs for its background is a digitally dicked shot of Supernova 1987A; I also used it on the new dust-cover for 'The War of the Apocalyptics' as well as for the full cover of the revised version of 'The Trigregos Gambit', here's a link to a note as to the significance of 1987A in the PHANTACEA Mythos; a nearly unimpeded vision the background image can be found in the section immediately below;

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