I feel so stupid. I hadn't noticed.

The logo for Clive Barker's Abarat (http://www.thebooksofabarat.com/content4/xbarat99.html) is designed to read the same upside-down.

So ... what the hell is that called, in artistic, stylistic, or other terms? It ain't a palindrome, but there's gotta be a word for it.

Ph@ck me ....

(Oh, click on the link for The Book, and you can download a really cool PDF--668kb--of Chapter 13 of the First Book of the Abarat.)

hey, i just started that book a few days ago. Is it just a really random book, or is there a good point for it?

Tiassa, it's called an ambigram.

Here's an example:
http://www.sandlotscience.com/Numbers/Ambiguity.htm

do you say that too? i use "f**K, me!" as an exclamation all the time.

Why not say fuck me? Is that so bad?

there might be wee ones about

So fuck me, that might be possible. Damn, but look what´s written under my name :eek:

Freedom of Speech baby!

Anyways, that name thingy Tiassa said is pretty cool. Never even heard of the guy, but cool anyway

the censor people said that that's ok. but fuck me is using the word as a verb. not allowed on television. watch your filthy mouth!

I live in germany, you can say fuck me wherever you want :D

Notes Around

Briefly:

• Invert: The Cabal sequel is not written, and I don't have a schedule for it. Click here (http://www.clivebarker.dial.pipex.com/newbooksb.html) for ... well, some info.
• MSBF: "Abarat" is the first of four books, an ambitious project by Barker. (The second, "Days fo Magic, Nights of War," is finished and is aiming for an autumn release.) It's a lifelong vision, as I understand it, and while the point of it is to be a fun story for all ages--okay, not all, but damn near--it also tests Barker's own creative limits. The pictures in the book are Clive Barker paintings, the largest of which I hear is 13' x 13'. But you'll rarely have an opportunity to see the originals--the thing is that Disney has money in this project (look carefully at the copyrights printed about the book and also at the title logo itself; Disney owns that logo, at least.) The point is that Abarat is actually supposed to become something huge, including a Disney theme park attraction. It's what blows my mind about Eisner. Thief of Always is merely a rumor these days, swirling around whatever's left of MCA, as far as I know. Abarat ... I don't know about Abarat. Clive always seems so upbeat about it. See "Lost Souls (http://clivebarker.com/)," for news & updates. (btw, Barker will be in SF on June 6, signing at A Different Light.) But yeah, for Disney, it's a new business enterprise that seems to be taking its own sweet time. For Barker, it's a nearly-unlimited creative landscape in which he undertakes his greatest effort yet to tell the story he's always been trying to tell.
• Swedish: Not a whole lot these days. I generally reserve it for the days when, "Well, paint me pink and call me Alice," or some-such just doesn't suffice. It is to be said on those occasions that I'm legitimately surprised, and inwardly amused about the surprise for reasons I feel people wouldn't or don't understand. It's almost a tag-line, and not necessarily a genuine expression of intended profanity on those occasions.

Doubt the Hellbount Heart ride. But Barker has admitted grand visions in his mind for "Abarat Land."

Although I'm hard-pressed how to reproduce a tea-party floating on the ocean.

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A random note on the title:

After SwedishFish's note, I couldn't stop wondering where I'd gotten my particular use of the phrase, and then last night on my third beer, it hit me. It's actually from the scene in Weird Science at the Kandy Bar, when Wyatt backs into a bathroom stall, sits down on some guy's lap, and exclaims, "Well ... gawd-damn!"

That, at least, is the meter with which the title is to be read. (And it occurs to me as I type this that, while I used to be able to recite that entire film, I learned to do so from a FOX television broadcast that I kept on tape for years. I'm pretty sure that's the line from the original, but an amusing consideration--if you're me--nonetheless.)

Oh, yeah ... and thank you, Counsler. Don't know how I forgot to mention that. 'Tis much appreciated.