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18 stf recollections Who has ever read the marvelous introductory of that book without going on? "These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due need of glory; and withal to put on record that were their grounds of feud...." Then; "According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel...." The edition was amply footnoted with notes on all sorts of things, and spiced liberally with Greek quotations. THat later started research into Greek, not yet finished. Again, there were footnotes in Egyptian heiroglyphs, another source of research not yet finished. The trail again led from Greece and Egypt thru Persia to India. Investigating India has led to a thousand and one curious things, including Tibet, which has proved to be the source of enough fantasy and weird to make it a source of continuing interest. It has always been one of the minor marvels that some stf author hasn't used the fantastic backgrounds that a Tibetan setting would give. Transferred to another planet, with the hideous suggestions that some of the mythology would give, would make a tremendous yarn. If some rugged gentleman of space, combining the characteristics of Lazarus Long and P. S. Stevens, and the drive that was organized along the lines of a Tibetan master of a lamasery, who had gone slightly daft, the resulting yarn would be a master work. Talbot Mundy, in one of his yarns called "Old Ugly Face", gives one or two tense situations of this type, especially in his description of the mental and physical bondage of the hero in the incident of the village magician. The result of all this reading, at the time, was to secure freedom thereafter in class when it came to ancient history. That teacher never prodded again, being convinced that she'd be floored by Herodotus or Aristophanes quoted direct. It would have been a great blessing if there had only been an Herodotus to quote in algebra class . . . . . f - i - n - i - s WHO'S WHO IN FANDOM? Are you? Neither am I - but it might be interesting to see who is. In which case, brush the moths out of your pocketbook and send 15[[cent symbol]] to Suddsy Schwartz, 229 Washington Street, Dorchester, Mass.; for THE ROGUE'S GALLERY
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18 stf recollections Who has ever read the marvelous introductory of that book without going on? "These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due need of glory; and withal to put on record that were their grounds of feud...." Then; "According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel...." The edition was amply footnoted with notes on all sorts of things, and spiced liberally with Greek quotations. THat later started research into Greek, not yet finished. Again, there were footnotes in Egyptian heiroglyphs, another source of research not yet finished. The trail again led from Greece and Egypt thru Persia to India. Investigating India has led to a thousand and one curious things, including Tibet, which has proved to be the source of enough fantasy and weird to make it a source of continuing interest. It has always been one of the minor marvels that some stf author hasn't used the fantastic backgrounds that a Tibetan setting would give. Transferred to another planet, with the hideous suggestions that some of the mythology would give, would make a tremendous yarn. If some rugged gentleman of space, combining the characteristics of Lazarus Long and P. S. Stevens, and the drive that was organized along the lines of a Tibetan master of a lamasery, who had gone slightly daft, the resulting yarn would be a master work. Talbot Mundy, in one of his yarns called "Old Ugly Face", gives one or two tense situations of this type, especially in his description of the mental and physical bondage of the hero in the incident of the village magician. The result of all this reading, at the time, was to secure freedom thereafter in class when it came to ancient history. That teacher never prodded again, being convinced that she'd be floored by Herodotus or Aristophanes quoted direct. It would have been a great blessing if there had only been an Herodotus to quote in algebra class . . . . . f - i - n - i - s WHO'S WHO IN FANDOM? Are you? Neither am I - but it might be interesting to see who is. In which case, brush the moths out of your pocketbook and send 15[[cent symbol]] to Suddsy Schwartz, 229 Washington Street, Dorchester, Mass.; for THE ROGUE'S GALLERY
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