extracts from GR....

[Basileios Drolias]

241.30
"Worried, all right. By the jaws and teeth of some Creature, some
Presence so large that nobody else can see it - there! that's that monster 
I was telling you about. - That's no monster, stupid, that's clouds!
- No, can't you see? it's his feet - Well, Slothrop can feel this beast in 
the sky: its visible claws and scales are being mistaken for clouds and 
other plausibilities..."

Has anybody noticed the similarity in the discription with Turner's 
painting "Ulysses blinding Polyphemos"?

296.38
"Then come - the Space Helmets! At first you may be alarmed, on no-
ticing that they appear to be fashioned from skulls. At least the upper
dome of this unpleasant headgear is certainly the skull of some manlike 
creature built to a larger scale... Perhaps Titans lived under this
mountain, and their skulls got harvested like giant mushrooms... The
eye-sockets are fitted with quartz lenses. Filters may be slipped in.
Nasal bone and upper teeth have been replaced by a metal breathing 
apparatus, full of slots and grating. Correspondingly to the jaws is a built-
up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps hous-
ing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. For an extra few
marks you are allowed to slip one of these helmets on. Once inside these
yellow caverns, looking out now through neutral-density orbits, the
sound of your breath hissing up and around the bone spaces, what you 
thought was a balanced mind is little help. The compartment the 
Schwarzkommando were quartered in is no longer an amusing travel-
ogue of native savages taking on ways of the 21st century..."

Do you see a description of Darth Vader from Starwars here???
Does any body know if George Lukas  copied this piece when he made 
starwars four years after GR was published?

basil




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