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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