# What's the deal with ths book cover?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-ths-book-cover/809428>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-ths-book-cover/809428 "2018-02-23T20:09:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-ths-book-cover/809428/21 "2018-12-16T12:03:47Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> I thought water’s edge and single cell prokaryotes with semipermeable membranes represented but see the fish too … and the different things to potentially interpret may even have been the intent of the artist.

“I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind”

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