And if I had recognized it as an ear at the first and if it had scared me away from ever listening to the album like the cover of Blind Faith has made me determined to never be caught dead listening to that album, it would have been a real shame. Besides, I went years before I even realized it was an ear, I thought it was some abstract psychedelic shape for the longest time. But then Storm Thorgerson initially proposed a close up of a baboon’s butt as the cover for Meddle, so I guess it could have been worse.

I honestly can’t imagine why you’d want to put a picture of an ear on your album. As a matter of fact, when have you ever heard anyone say “That person has really attractive ears”? It may be the only part of the human body that no one has ever found attractive. There are a lot of parts of the human body that can be attractive, but the ear is not one of them. Every so often they have earwax and crud in them, though they look disgusting enough even when they don’t. Have you ever taken a good, hard look at someone’s ear? They have all these gross ridges and folds and some of them have these earlobes dangling off them for who knows what reason.

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