GODDAMN YOU, BRAIN...
Dec. 21st, 2004 01:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn1. Hmm, lovely, nice shiny copy of Under the Moons of Mars (SFBC collection of first three Edgar Rice Burroughs novels of Barsoom). I'll read whilst doing dishes.
2. Red Martians, yellow Martians... that overlaps with... no it doesn't, there aren't any Martians in the othe... oth...
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Mars.
DAMN YOU TO HELL, BRAIN.
2. Red Martians, yellow Martians... that overlaps with... no it doesn't, there aren't any Martians in the othe... oth...
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Mars.
DAMN YOU TO HELL, BRAIN.
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Date: 2004-12-21 12:31 am (UTC)Dejah Thoris' Guild,
Dejah Thoris' Guild,
And in the name of Dejah Thoris' Guild,
Weee wish you very well in Burroughsland!"
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Date: 2004-12-21 07:19 am (UTC)“BRING ME THE METAL OF THE WICKED WITCH OF WARHOON!”
“If you’re such a mighty Wizard, why can’t you do it yourself?”
“I’m a man. Men don’t kill women on Barsoom, or women, men.”
“Oh.”
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Date: 2004-12-21 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 04:25 am (UTC)*ducks down to be hammered*
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Date: 2004-12-21 05:51 am (UTC)Oh, and I sent you two packages yesterday. Not the book, but two other packages. I think you'll approve.
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:21 am (UTC)Boy, that's kinda a different look for the Emerald City ....
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Date: 2004-12-22 07:47 am (UTC)On the other hand, Barnstormer did enable me to remember the manner of Warren G. Harding's death in quick enough time to answer a thirty-point College Bowl bonus question some years ago, so that balances things out a bit.
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Date: 2004-12-22 07:57 am (UTC)UH?? What was it? I probably read "Barnstormer" over 15 years ago, so I don't remember this detail. (Glinda dancing around naked was bizarre enough to stick with me, but there's not much else left in my head of that book.)
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Date: 2004-12-22 08:07 am (UTC)In June of 1923, Harding set out on a cross-country "Voyage of Understanding," planning to meet regular people and explain his policies. During this trip, he became the first President to visit Alaska. At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska, Harding developed what was thought to be a severe case of food poisoning. Arriving at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, he developed pneumonia. Harding died early in the morning on August 2, 1923 at age 57. Naval physicians surmised that he had suffered a heart attack; however, this diagnosis was not made by Dr. Charles Sawyer, the Surgeon General, who was traveling with the presidential party. Mrs. Harding refused permission for an autopsy upon Sawyer's recommendation, which soon led to speculation that the President had been the victim of a plot. Sawyer's medical qualifications were also called into question. Harding was succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge, who was sworn in by his father, a notary public, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont.
That's the official version. In Barnstormer, he was murdered by Glinda and the title character- they jammed some kind of Ozian gold statuette down his throat to prevent him from continuing his program of trying to get US military might into Oz via the air. The secrecy on the part of the wife and the surgeons was to prevent the public from finding out about Oz being real.
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