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Fanomena, March 1948
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THE ULTIMATE VICTORY David H. Keller John Kelly, as an adolescent, gave primise of an interesting maturity as an expert stenographer. At the age of twenty-one he was recognized as the best Court reporter in New York City. The death of a distant relative provided him with an a assured income of one hundred dollars a month. This bequest changed his entire life. Immediately the first symptoms os an incurable desease manifested themselves in his behavior . He bought an abandoned farm, moved to the country and started life in the desolate house. From a second hand store in town he secured an old table, an older chair and an army cot. Paper, carbon paper, typewriter ribbons were purchased at a stationery store. Anxious to have sufficient paper , his first purchase was five thousand sheets and one hundred manilla mailing envelopes. Then he sat down on the rickety chair and started to write his first science fiction story. From that hour he lived only to write. Eating, sleeping, dressing were merely time-consuming incidents in a life devoted to an esoteric art. Obviously it was necessary to continue diving, as dead he could write no consternating stories. He realized that he would need vitamins to manitain health, calories to supply energy, to type many hours a day and this give to the world all his beautiful eerie and scientific tales. He was disturbed by the thought of time wasted cooking meals, distressed at the cost of the necessary food, money which could be so much better spent for paper and postage. Fortunately he learned that the neighboring farmers were growing cabbages and carrots for the New Work market. Touched by his extreme poverty and proud of having a real author in their community they promised to keep him supplied with unsalable carrots and cabbage culls which hitherto they had fed to the pigs. Kelly did some rapid calculating. One hundred grams (3 1/3 ouncest) of cabbage woud supply him with 27 calories of energy. One hundred grams of carrot would provide of calories and the much needed vitamins. If he ate 23 pounds of cabbage and 6 pounds of carrots every day he would be amply nourished. These vegetabes could be eaten raw.
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THE ULTIMATE VICTORY David H. Keller John Kelly, as an adolescent, gave primise of an interesting maturity as an expert stenographer. At the age of twenty-one he was recognized as the best Court reporter in New York City. The death of a distant relative provided him with an a assured income of one hundred dollars a month. This bequest changed his entire life. Immediately the first symptoms os an incurable desease manifested themselves in his behavior . He bought an abandoned farm, moved to the country and started life in the desolate house. From a second hand store in town he secured an old table, an older chair and an army cot. Paper, carbon paper, typewriter ribbons were purchased at a stationery store. Anxious to have sufficient paper , his first purchase was five thousand sheets and one hundred manilla mailing envelopes. Then he sat down on the rickety chair and started to write his first science fiction story. From that hour he lived only to write. Eating, sleeping, dressing were merely time-consuming incidents in a life devoted to an esoteric art. Obviously it was necessary to continue diving, as dead he could write no consternating stories. He realized that he would need vitamins to manitain health, calories to supply energy, to type many hours a day and this give to the world all his beautiful eerie and scientific tales. He was disturbed by the thought of time wasted cooking meals, distressed at the cost of the necessary food, money which could be so much better spent for paper and postage. Fortunately he learned that the neighboring farmers were growing cabbages and carrots for the New Work market. Touched by his extreme poverty and proud of having a real author in their community they promised to keep him supplied with unsalable carrots and cabbage culls which hitherto they had fed to the pigs. Kelly did some rapid calculating. One hundred grams (3 1/3 ouncest) of cabbage woud supply him with 27 calories of energy. One hundred grams of carrot would provide of calories and the much needed vitamins. If he ate 23 pounds of cabbage and 6 pounds of carrots every day he would be amply nourished. These vegetabes could be eaten raw.
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