AtD-13
Carvill John
johncarvill at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 22 04:27:07 CST 2006
Heh. Page 11 eh? Well it wins out in terms of portentious tones, but 13
takes the poetic prose honours, imho.
Either way, the two paragraphs bracket a great early sequence.
>
>
> I've been calling around Eugene for a few days, two
>indies knew it was coming, at the chains and U bookstore it
>was just some book they had to look up.
> I got the single copy from one indie, and the 30%
>off at the chain and oboyoboyoboy, i'm stuck at home
>feverous so I can sit at the rainy day window and read
>for day!
>
> First impression makes me want to go see if the
>Chums of Chance books were written by Thomas Appleton [1].
>A marvelous mix of geewhizbang patter, seasoned to era,
>with an erudite mixture of tech with the preposterous.
>(Perpetual motion indeed! More like an asymptotic
>catastrophe!)
> And, really, the first paragraph on page 11
>is far powerful than the mildly amusing battom of
>page 13.
>
> veg
>
>
>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
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