Literary Works Instantly Identifiable By A Single Image

A young girl sitting at the train station, her hair in two braids and dressed a little shabbily with a battered carpetbag next to her.

Christ, I hate to admit it, but I’m getting nothing from this. What work does it depict? Preparing to kick myself after I hear the answer…

Sir Rhosis

Is it Lenny and George? I’d draw them in an open field or a barn, though.

I think at the end of the book they are by a lake. My memory could be off though.

^^^Could be right. Been years since I read OMAM, and seemed to remember that (just in case someone hasn’t read it) George shot and killed Lenny as they sat in a barn.

Am I even remembering correctly that the intelligent one was named George?

Sir Rhosis

:gasps: The missing torso of Ozymandias!

Quite a find, huh? :slight_smile:

You bet. And one of Napoleon’s soldiers shot his nose off, too. Bummer.

Professor Xavier? :wink:

(I’m kidding!)

A small, raggedly dressed boy holding up an empty bowl

Two men, one tall and thin on horseback, the other fat and riding a donkey

A woman flying through the sky suspended by an open umbrella

Biblical literature is particularly loaded with such images:

A naked man and woman in a lush garden, with an apple and a snake.

A body of water being separated into two, with a large mass of people walking in the middle.

A golden calf.

A burning bush.

Two stone tablets.

A battle between a little guy with nothing but a sling and a huge guy with lots of armor.

A guy looking out his window at a woman taking a bath.

A man and a king looking at strange writing on a wall.

A man, woman, and baby in a barn.

A guy walking on water in a storm.

And, of course, three dudes being crucified.

An old man with long grey hair and a beard in a grey robe, armed with a sword and a staff. He stands on a stone bridge, facing a flaming demonic being.

A man with fangs in formal clothing holding a woman in old style English clothing who has two bleeding marks on her neck.

A man with pointed ears, black skin, white hair, and red eyes holding a scimitar in either hand, with a black panther next to him.

A man on a white horse with blue eyes, facing a pass filled with a huge army all in black armor.

A bowman aiming a black arrow at a vast red dragon flying far overhead.

A furred snake with the head of a cat.

A young man with a huge sword covered in blue flames, facing a man in black robes and a steel mask, wielding a black sword.

A small, pretty woman with black hair, flanked by a handsome man, and another man who is handsome on one side, and terribly scarred on the other.

A young red headed man with a winged snake.

A man with a knife falling out of an opening in his arm into his hand.

A man with the head of a jackal facing the huge black shadow of a horse. He holds a silver bridle in one hand.

A long haired man armed with sword and rifle, riding what looks like a velociraptor, surrounded by larger aliens with four arms who are riding the same sort of creatures.

A man in blue and black armor standing before a smallish bridge, wielding a M-16 in either hand. An army of skeletal riders is approaching.*

  • If comic books count

A door knocker that assumes the appearance of a man’s face.

A woman knitting in Paris.

A bishop in a church confronted by four men with swords.

A huge tripod firing a death ray.

A huge cannon firing a spaceship toward the moon.

A white man in a loincloth standing in a treetop, or swinging on a vine.

A man in sunglasses unwrapping the top of his completely bandaged head to reveal…nothing underneath!

An old man in a decrepit boat with a huge marlin strapped to the side.

A shark ascending vertically, with gaping maw, toward an unsuspecting female swimmer.

A wooden puppet with a very long nose.

A woman walking a small dog along the sea-front.

A bowman aiming an arrow at a boy with an apple on his head.

A tropical island, where everything is frozen, including a man lying on his back and thumbing his nose.

A Soviet prisoner.

A giant iron submarine.

A giant cannon at Cape Canaveral.

Giant towering devices moving along on snakelike legs and sending out rays of heat.

A boot stamping on a human face – for ever

Yup, and I do recall them chilling out by a lake (or river?) at the beggining of the novel.

A young man with goat legs wearing a scarf and carrying some packages under his arm, standing in a snowy forest.

A large billboard with a pair of spectacled eyes overlooking a valley of ash.

A spider and a pig.

A demon sitting at a typewriter.

A silouette of a woman with her arm raised to her shoulder, fist and teeth clenched.

A guy on a gurney in a straightjacket wearing a hockey mask (that is one weird sentence).

A girl in a gingham dress, accompanied by a lion, a scarecrow, and a tin woodsman.

(Or just a single flying monkey would do in a pinch.)

A large black bird sitting on a pallid bust of Pallas.

The statuette of a black bird.

A pigtailed girl on a bed with small dog in a house that’s sailing through the air above Kansas.

A somewhat raggedy boy whitewashing a fence.