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Old 12-02-2014, 02:57 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote stories that featured a guy named Edgar Rice Burroughs who was related to John Carter and interacted with several other notable adventurers of his world.
It is not uncommon.
I think this was the literary mechanism by which ERB 'obtained' the true story of John Carter's adventures on Mars.
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