AtDTDA 37 1060 The terrible flood of time 409
Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling
scuffling at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 12:09:18 CDT 2008
Speaking of walloping, the other alliterative walloping that came to
my mind is the (ballad of the) Walloping Window Blind
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/walloping-window-blind-the/
but on a little Internet search, I found a B cowboy movie, Walloping Wallace!
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/115883/Walloping-Wallace/overview
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:37 PM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> In the set-up for Merle reaching across the waters to his
> daughter. . . .
>
> ". . . .setting forth against the Enemy Wind",
>
> . . . .we are reminded of:
>
> "Walloping Wellesianism!" cried the Professor, "it's just a whole
> junkyard full!" Up and down the steeply-pitched sides of a ravine
> lay the picked-over hulks of failed time machines—Chronoclipses,
> Asimov Transeculars, Tempomorph Q-98s—broken, defective,
> scorched by misdirected flares of misrouted energy, corroded often
> beyond recognition by unintended immersion in the terrible Flow
> over which they had been designed and built, so hopefully,
> to prevail. . . . (p.409)
--
AsB4,
Henry
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