ATDTDA (33) - p. 935-9 pulp fiction

David Payne dpayne1912 at hotmail.com
Tue May 27 21:55:59 CDT 2008


Or did Ratty and De Bottle feed them some ridiculous line about the map being in code, and the map really is the Congo? A comment on reading too much into works of fiction?

And why is it in violet?

On Mon, 26 May 2008 (22:06:09 -0400), Laura (kelber at mindspring.com) wrote:

> Why have Ratty and De Bottle shown this map to the intrepid three? They want them to seek it out and disarm it. We're in the realm of pulp fiction here. In reality, we might not expect a pregnant mathematician, a gambling man and a fey former male prostitute-turned-spy to have the technological know-how to disarm a sophisticated land-mine/poison gas weapon. But as characters in a cheesy spy caper, we expect it of them. This is the latest offering of the boys' adventure, detective, Western and Victorian pulp fiction TRP's already thrown our way.

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