If you really want to confuse your mind, you can interpret the ENTIRE album cover as either two cowboys trying to rope the guy fleeing on foot, or the guy on foot chasing two cowboys – the one on the left is stopping and turning away, the one on the right is using his lasso to left-handed whip his horse to run away faster. (Or they are all converging on a point, or fleeing an unseen rattlesnake.)

I can reverse the direction of the dancer more-or-less at will be concentrating on one point or another.

Well, you expect him to be running away because of the scenario. But I think the art is intended to be ambiguous. I don’t have the CD handy but I seem to recall there’s another illustration in the booklet that is ambiguous in another way.

In theater, hence the comments about the dancer.

Of course, I can test very strongly left-brained anytime I want to, which is fun because it baffles any proctors who know me well. All that really means is that I learned my lessons very well in school, which is heavily tilted towards left-brain learning styles— it took me until college and beyond to figure out why I could, for example, ace any philosophy paper but only garner skeptical comments from English professors. English profs want highly constructed arguments on very little evidence (sometimes entirely fabricated, but still extremely progressive), while philosophy profs don’t mind a little intuitive leap every once in a while.

I have been tested so much and so often since I was young that the real fun in being tested now is to deconstruct the sucker and turn it around on the proctor. It keeps them from getting too bored.

Thanks for the scientific tips on seeing which way a pair of tits were spinning in an animated drawing.

As things turned out, I was fatigued, I hadn’t slept since I got out of bed yesterday morning, and I was 73 years old yesterday.

Today, looking it over again, I’m still 73 years old. But it’s the middle of the day, when my rural but exurban life doesn’t permit me to act fatigued.

And the lady is still spinning clockwise.

Arnold Harris

Mount Horeb WI

I could send you the GIF, and I believe I could even send you the series of images that make up the animation, as IIRC Animation Shop allows each individual piece to be saved or copied.