6. As @john_clute has traced out, visions of a Statue of Liberty as a misunderstood ruin show in other SF novels before Planet of the Apes.
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17. Here's a 1953 cover for Fantastic Universe which might have influenced the Planet of the Apes final scene.pic.twitter.com/hqtTEvWTDQ
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18. And here's the same artist (Alex Schomberg) riffing on theme in 1964 (four years before Planet of the Apes).pic.twitter.com/8KPAX6l6oi
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19. I'll just end with the great Jack Kirby riffing on this them, post-Planet of the Apes, in Kamandipic.twitter.com/Ss7sSsxaMB
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Now if you don't bring in Burke on the sublime, Freud, and the Islamic State, you're slipping.
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I'm writing a setting where the ruins of the past and such are important - I see what you mean. There's an appeal to all this.
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as a kid, i was always scared "The Motherland Calls" statue would come to life and murder everyone...pic.twitter.com/nA0NodZ9NS
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