AtD 34 - was AtD-13

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Carvill John wrote:

> 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.


	Good sir, I must respectfully reject your assessment and
reiterate my judgement of relative quality.  A-and, um, oops...
I meant the top of page 10...   (I really am sick, and continue
to grasp lacunae in the confusion to soldier on...)
	Here I had a nice little essay written down somewhere
in these fogs, but I have cruelly misdirected your attention.
	feh.

	Well, anyway, here are some bits of it.
	 I read Upton Sinclair's _The Jungle_ recently, it is set square 
within the phrase (lns 9-11, pg 10)

... able to detach from earth and blood for a few precious seconds ...
	
	They lived a carnal hell in the belly of rapacious capitalism,
and the contrast between this brief peek at their desparate lives
and the marvelvous airship is stark and revealing.
	There is a  geewhiz sense of wonder generated by the nature of the
narrative, akin to Tom Swift, with all-things-all-possible through
the astounding new machines and science.  This feeling in strengthened
by the mind boggling variety of aircraft flying around.
	Tom Swift and His Electromagnetic Abbatoir.
	(And the ones I read were by Victor (thank you) Appleton III.
For this reason I have been under the misimpression that I had read
the third series.)  
	This theme is sounded again in Prof. Vanderjuice's visit
with Vibe Scarsdale - the egalitaran ideas flowing from Tesla are
financed only to control and destroy them.  We have the contrast of
the shining city on the hill with the service industry striving and
dying in the sewers below.
 	
	Indeed, that bottom of pg 13 is a great bit of prose - but it
doesn't seem to do much with its beauty.  Good imagery, funny scene,
introduction of an Important Character.  Pg 10 reaches out and shakes
my core with its velvet gloves.

	veg