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Old 09-19-2012, 04:59 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by GlennD View Post
I don't think you're giving Burroughs enough credit.
Now that you point it out, yeah, I exaggerated a bit. But their primary purpose in those stories was to give the male characters something to rescue, even if they did often serve to reduce the total number of characters you have to keep track of. And now that I think about it, he got better as time went by (the laters ones were written post WWII, and the world was changing at that point).
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