ATDDTA the Chums narrator

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

robinlandseadel
>The Chums of Chance narrator is a self-conscious, very famous author 
> of a series of celebrated children's novels. 

but, however, mutatis mutandis, amicus curiae, let us consider 
that he is also a very *odd* author...both the current 
adventure and the other ones referred to may be typical of 
"the world with just a few changes" but are (I'd say) 
refreshingly different from any known to originate in this 
our mundane world; and his asides are unique to AtD though they 
(caricature? parallel? build on? refract?) auctorial asides we 
know & love...further, both the freedom of speech and the
verbal dexterity afforded the Chums eclipses those qualities
as found in the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and John Carter 
of Mars, taken together...