XX/2 Tiresias is here depicted at the point of flux between male and female, as his staff touches the intertwining snakes that effect his transformation. The sky is full of portents, the earth alive with catastrophe (for the foretelling of fun to come is hardly the stock-in-trade of Classical seers). The presence of astronomical paraphernalia hints at the growth of scientific endeavour that will develop from those very sources of Astrology and Alchemy. The original collage that formed the black and white basis of this image was made from the usual source materials and the sky contains the complete quota of celestial bodies from an annual volume of the Boy's Own Paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.