Another bird-of-prey octopus juxtaposition, in The King in Yellow

My February 23 post "Desert scenes" dealt with people in yellow clothing: the sun-man, Lehi, and of course Pharazon. This brought to my attention the fact that I have never read The King in Yellow, so I decided to rectify that omission. I got an epub from Anna's. It's in the public domain, so there have many editions by many publishers, with a wide variety of cover art. Not until I downloaded and opened my epub did I discover that I had happened to select what is apparently the only edition to feature octopus imagery on the cover:

Not only does the King's robe terminate in tentacles, but the Moon is positioned just right so that the King and Moon together approximate the shape of an octopus's whole body. Although the yellowness of the King is right there in the title, the octopus part of him is more of an orange. Directly below this orange octopus imagery is the name Robert, which means "fame-bright." This made me think of another book that recently entered the sync-stream (see "Gone with the wind from the house of leaves" and "Turn around bright, eyes"): Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. I posted the cover of the Chinese edition, because that was the form in which I first saw it. For some reason, the cover art on the Chinese edition is the mirror-image of the original English, so that the octopus is facing the same direction as the "octopus" on the cover of The King in Yellow:

I started reading The King in Yellow today. On page 35 I ran across this:

"That little cigar shaped thing is a torpedo boat," he explained; there are four more lying close together. They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus. . . ."

At first, only the Octopus jumped out at me, but then I noticed that the Falcon was there, too. Birds of prey juxtaposed with octopuses have been a recurring theme lately. First, in "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen" (February 13), a Donovan song mentioning a kite was interpreted by Bill as having to do with spider and octopus symbolism; then I read about a hawk wrestling an octopus in Words of the Faithful; and then I saw a kite and an octopus juxtaposed on the Duckstack. In "Mang the Bat, and the splendor of the Island Pharaohs" (February 25), I discovered a similar juxtaposition -- a Garuda-like vulture and an octopus-like "spider mask" in my 2024 dream post "A vulture named Odessa Grigorievna, and Joseph Smith in a spider mask" and also noted a somewhat related theme on the Nine of Pentacles, where a falcon appears together with a snail (snails and slugs being the closest terrestrial relatives to the octopus). Now here it is yet again, with the names of these two torpedo boats.