# examples of ecphrasis

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 5, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-ecphrasis/410641 "2007-07-05T20:33:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-ecphrasis/410641/61 "2007-07-10T23:01:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]  
The Pogues’ second album [_Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum%2C_Sodomy%2C_and_the_Lash) features Géricault’s [_The Raft of the Medusa_](http://www.shunya.net/Text/Islam/Maps/RaftMedusa.jpg) on the cover. In a slight change to the original, the faces of the band members feature among those on the ill-fated vessel.  
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[A lovely pastiche of this painting](http://asterix.openscroll.org/images/uderzo_gericault.gif) also crops up as a panel in _Asterix The Legionary_ , when the hapless pirates have once again been sunk by Asterix and Obelix, and are adrift on a ramshackle raft: one of the pirates remarks, “We’ve been framed, by Jericho!”

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