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Posted by Dante on 2012-April-29 23:29:40 EDT, Sunday
In reply to Would someone like to give me their interpretation posted by Stahntii on 2012-April-29 01:58:46 EDT, Sunday
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I could also interpret the meaning of the title Lord Vanity which was sitting atop the NYT Bestseller list when the short story Mary Vincent and the Convict was published in January 1954.

But I haven't read the novel Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger, nor have I read the short story Mary Vincent and the Convict by Allan Seager. So any speculation would be entirely baseless, and would only reveal the contents of my head, not the contents of the respective stories and any titles or art used to illustrate them.

There are times where an honest "I don't know" is better than any guess. It leaves open the possibility that the info-gap might be filled by something meaningful in the future. Filling the void with cloud-reading makes it more likely that the uneducated guess will be treated as though it were valid, and the curiosity will feel sated.

Though it is an interesting picture from the end-period of the Golden Age of Illustration.

Dante

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