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#5 · Posted: 28 Jan 2007 10:25
I agree with Ed that Hergé used two very distinctly different yellow colours for his spines - the amber orangey yellow and the paler yellow which looks more like what printers would call process yellow.
Regarding colours mentioned in the books' titles: Maybe yamilah is counting 'gold' as the colour in Land of Black Gold rather than black (which, as labrador road 26 points out, would be a repeat of a colour already mentioned). But if 'gold' is valid as a colour, then maybe 'emerald' should be counted as a colour as well!
Regarding animals on the covers, there's also a bird depicted on the Blue Lotus vase, and there's a bird on the clothing of the Indian chief on Tintin in America. There are birds (I think), and certainly part of a horse, depicted on the cover of Cigars of the Pharaoh. And, as labrador road 26 has pointed out, there are dozens of animals - various species of fish and invertebrates - on the Red Rackham's Treasure cover. And why mention the only the crab on The Crab With the Golden Claws but not the camels?
Sorry, yamilah, but almost every part of your 'evidence' that four has a special significance in the book covers doesn't make any sense whatsoever, even within the terms of your own examples! You've only been able to come up with the number four for each catagory (colours or animals) by selecting four instances of that catagory and simply overlooking all the other equally valid instances.
To give a similar example of selecting evidence to fit a pre-decided answer: We could all make the windows of any large office building spell out our initials if we mentally drew the necessary lines between certain windows and simply ignored all the other windows, but this wouldn't be evidence that the architect of such a building had covertly embedded our initials into his work!
I can't help thinking that playing along with your question, by finding "what type of objects are mentioned in four titles", is only going to fuel your delusion in this matter, and I feel uncomfortable about doing that, so I won't.
There is so much to genuinely analyse in Hergé's masterful Tintin book covers in terms of his design, composition, art, colour, content etc, that surely it trivializes his work to overlook all this and only look for silly non-existent number codes instead.
Sorry to have to be so negative, yamilah, but it's for your own good. Please come over to the land of reason!
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