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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i'll take a look. they're sillier and more subversive than i expected (they remind me of the marx brothers / abbott and costello a bit).
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A lot of the old cartoons are like that. I've seen some cartoons produced during WWII as propoganda efforts that are positively surreal.
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brilliant book !! i think it's even funnier as an adult, because of all the second degree humour and puns.
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Yes. Enjoyable by kids and grownups, for different reasons.
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sounds like interesting reading, recommendations ?
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Fred has a large body of work. You might look at the "Heechee" books for good examples. The Heechee are enormously advanced aliens who have disappeared, leaving behind bits of technology man is scavenging. It appears the Heechee determined that someone/something
was altering the universal constants, and dove into a cosmic hole and pulled it in after them.
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Dennis