The Badges

The Badges · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of Twice in Naples, the motif is identified as “The Badges.” The godfather’s son remembers a life in which he was a police officer—and arrested his father.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.