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Re: new 20K

From: <spaceart~at~att.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:20:04 +0000
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Aha! I often wondered about that, since it seems so alien to what I would have expected from Verne. I'm looking forward even more to seeing the new book.

R

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Rick Walter" <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
> Ron-- 
> 
> As our upcoming edition of THE METEOR HUNT discusses, this "machine" doesn't 
> exist in Jules Verne's original but is entirely a figment of Michel's 
> imagination.
> 
> All the best,
> Rick in Albuquerque
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <spaceart~at~att.net>
> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:06 AM
> Subject: Re: new 20K
> 
> 
> > "Paul"? Whatever was I thinking? I'd obviously been staring into a cathode 
> > ray tube too long this week...
> >
> > By the way, "Hunt For the Meteor" has always been one of my secret vices. 
> > Hardly among Verne's best, but for some reason fun and appealing. (Herge 
> > must have thought so, too, since it was obviously the inspiration for his 
> > Tintin book, "The Shooting Star".) The machine used to affect the orbit of 
> > the meteor is a truly SF device---although Verne (or whoever) apparently 
> > ignored the law of action and reaction when describing it operating. Any 
> > force it applied to shifting the meteor would have applied to the machine 
> > as well. I remember thinking while reading the book that probably the only 
> > result of shoving on the meteor hard enough to move it would be the 
> > flattening of the device itself.
> >
> > R
> >
> > --
> > Black Cat Studios
> > http://www.black-cat-studios.com
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Rick Walter" <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
> >> Ron--
> >>
> >> Thanks for your good wishes, and BTW, I'm "Rick" to friends and 
> >> familiars.
> >> (You qualify: we've chatted by phone but not in person -- though, 
> >> hopefully,
> >> you'll update your NAVJS membership and we'll finally be able to meet at 
> >> the
> >> Conference next Spring).
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Rick Walter
> >> in Albuquerque.
> > 
> 
> 

Received on Mon 17 Oct 2005 - 14:20:22 IST

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