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FMS Digest, v. 1, issues 1-5, February - July 1941

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ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE

By mary Wollheim-Stonecraft
(as confidentially told to 4sJ)
Condensed from ECLIPSE, Vol. 1,No.1

"Come quickly" read the laconic telegram that set Adumb Linx' long legs in rapid motion. Thru the raging nite, illumd now & anon by a jag of litening, he sped. up; up & around the spiraling road to the castle of Count Miaut he tore. As snow started to fall, making slippery & even more perilous the curving mountain road, he switcht on the nonskids. His face was the ice-blue of chilld steel by the time he arrived at the door of dread. he rapt with his bare fist. "Let me in," he cryd, volume-control turnd top-notch so that his voice might penetrate the roaring elements.
Instantly, signifying that he had been awaited, the door swung inward. Miaut was much as Adumb had remembered him when he had been his laboratory assistant, befor the old experimenter's disgrace. The plates on his forehead a little more lined with scratches, a new dent or 2 upon his aging frame; yet U probly coud count on the "Count" for another 10 yrs, if his battrys were recharged regularly.
"Ahto, old mech!" Adumb blurted, involuntarily lapsing into the unforgotten familiar name. For once Ahto von Rednib had been a name of fame, bfor the flesh experiments that had stricken him from the rolls of reputable scientists. "Ahto is a Theist!" the respectable, precise, athestic mechanical minds had judged the errant savant. "He woud have dealings with diety. Dismiss him from the university, & dishonor to his name."
"Adumb, my rob; come in," urged Ahto. "Hurry!"

The old mech led him to the lab, pointed proudly to something vaguely robot - like lying motionless on a tabletop; cryd "Look! It lives!"
Adumb's eyes glowd ultra-marine-fleckt-with-green as awe. "U've done it?" he gaspt.
"Living flesh!" exualted von Rednib. "I call it ...a human being!"
The silence of one stunned.  Then Adumb turned the tone-dial to Barely Audible whisper, whispered,  barely audibly, "But Ahto, have U considered---it may have a soul!"
At this the monstrous travesty of a robot slid from the slab & confronted the 2 automatons, who stood paralyzed. The human flung itself upon von Rednib, blinding him with a blow of superobotic strength, by smashing his photocells. Adumb started to run. But the horrible human easily overtook him.
"I have need of U, tin can," it informed him. "U can create me a mate!"
"Never!" roard Adumb, fullblast. "By all that's steely, I'll see U in the melting pot first, U jerk; U squeaky, half-cast-iron son of a bed-spring, U!"

"& if I shoud kidnap your Madam, Adumb?"
"U wouldnt dare!" Dissatisfyd with the expression he reset the regulator, stammerd "U-U-woud-woudnt d-dare!"
(But the robotoid has kidnapd Kuph Linx, & tortures her till Adumb persuades Dr von Rednib to accede; but while Doc ostensibly builds a female flesh-body, in reality he creates a voracious synthetic amoeba. The amoeba engulfs the human monster, but then catastrophe! It continues to grow. Dr von Rednib decides on a one in a million gamble: He will destroy it with 8u2...the secret of atomic power!)
But a progressive chain reaction cycleor circle of zero is detonated in the subetheric statum of the space-time continuum, &, according to the Ely Culbertson theory, disintegrates all matter in its path.
The amoeba eats up one half the earth, 8u2 devours the other!
& as Count Miaut stood on the lest speck of terra infirma, atomic disintegration giving him one hot foot, the omeba nibbling at the other, he shouted--that all the other worlds of the universe might hear and beware: "STOP SCIENCE!"
& to himself he mumbled "Oh, Rob--I meddled with things metal should leave alone..."

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ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE By mary Wollheim-Stonecraft (as confidentially told to 4sJ) Condensed from ECLIPSE, Vol. 1,No.1 "Come quickly" read the laconic telegram that set Adumb Linx' long legs in rapid motion. Thru the raging nite, illumd now & anon by a jag of litening, he sped. up; up & around the spiraling road to the castle of Count Miaut he tore. As snow started to fall, making slippery & even more perilous the curving mountain road, he switcht on the nonskids. His face was the ice-blue of chilld steel by the time he arrived at the door of dread. he rapt with his bare fist. "Let me in," he cryd, volume-control turnd top-notch so that his voice might penetrate the roaring elements. Instantly, signifying that he had been awaited, the door swung inward. Miaut was much as Adumb had remembered him when he had been his laboratory assistant, befor the old experimenter's disgrace. The plates on his forehead a little more lined with scratches, a new dent or 2 upon his aging frame; yet U probly coud count on the "Count" for another 10 yrs, if his battrys were recharged regularly. "Ahto, old mech!" Adumb blurted, involuntarily lapsing into the unforgotten familiar name. For once Ahto von Rednib had been a name of fame, bfor the flesh experiments that had stricken him from the rolls of reputable scientists. "Ahto is a Theist!" the respectable, precise, athestic mechanical minds had judged the errant savant. "He woud have dealings with diety. Dismiss him from the university, & dishonor to his name." "Adumb, my rob; come in," urged Ahto. "Hurry!" The old mech led him to the lab, pointed proudly to something vaguely robot - like lying motionless on a tabletop; cryd "Look! It lives!" Adumb's eyes glowd ultra-marine-fleckt-with-green as awe. "U've done it?" he gaspt. "Living flesh!" exualted von Rednib. "I call it ...a human being!" The silence of one stunned. Then Adumb turned the tone-dial to Barely Audible whisper, whispered, barely audibly, "But Ahto, have U considered---it may have a soul!" At this the monstrous travesty of a robot slid from the slab & confronted the 2 automatons, who stood paralyzed. The human flung itself upon von Rednib, blinding him with a blow of superobotic strength, by smashing his photocells. Adumb started to run. But the horrible human easily overtook him. "I have need of U, tin can," it informed him. "U can create me a mate!" "Never!" roard Adumb, fullblast. "By all that's steely, I'll see U in the melting pot first, U jerk; U squeaky, half-cast-iron son of a bed-spring, U!" "& if I shoud kidnap your Madam, Adumb?" "U wouldnt dare!" Dissatisfyd with the expression he reset the regulator, stammerd "U-U-woud-woudnt d-dare!" (But the robotoid has kidnapd Kuph Linx, & tortures her till Adumb persuades Dr von Rednib to accede; but while Doc ostensibly builds a female flesh-body, in reality he creates a voracious synthetic amoeba. The amoeba engulfs the human monster, but then catastrophe! It continues to grow. Dr von Rednib decides on a one in a million gamble: He will destroy it with 8u2...the secret of atomic power!) But a progressive chain reaction cycleor circle of zero is detonated in the subetheric statum of the space-time continuum, &, according to the Ely Culbertson theory, disintegrates all matter in its path. The amoeba eats up one half the earth, 8u2 devours the other! & as Count Miaut stood on the lest speck of terra infirma, atomic disintegration giving him one hot foot, the omeba nibbling at the other, he shouted--that all the other worlds of the universe might hear and beware: "STOP SCIENCE!" & to himself he mumbled "Oh, Rob--I meddled with things metal should leave alone..."