# The pictograph from "Way of the Pilgrim"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 3, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pictograph-from-way-of-the-pilgrim/733421 "2015-10-03T21:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pictograph-from-way-of-the-pilgrim/733421/1 "2015-10-03T21:46:51Z")

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I need to decorate a cake with it, but my memory of the book is about four decades old, and I don’t trust myself on the details of exactly what the pictograph of the Pilgrim looked like.

Unfortunately I no longer have a copy of the book, and the local library doesn’t either ☹ and I can’t seem to find the right search terms to use for Google, though the image _must_ be out on the web, somewhere, _everything_ is. I’m hoping with all the SF fans here, there is someone with a copy of the book they could look at for me.

In my memory it was super simple: just a circle for the head, a triangle for the body, a horizontal line for an arm, and a vertical line for the staff. There was nothing else, right? As in, no legs/feet, the ‘head’ just touched the top of the triangle with no line for a neck, etc.?

And how tall was the staff? As tall as the figure? Taller/shorter?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pictograph-from-way-of-the-pilgrim/733421/2 "2015-10-04T16:42:07Z")

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> **[Way of the Pilgrim](https://books.google.com/books?id=EdxHpuHdEzAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)**
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> Shane, a gifted linguist, has spent his life learning the language of the old and powerful alien race that has conquered Earth. He has learned it so well that the interstellar masters, old hands at enslaving planets, regard him as a valuable...

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pictograph-from-way-of-the-pilgrim/733421/3 "2015-10-04T20:05:34Z")

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Perfect! Thank you so much. 🙂

(This board never fails me.)