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Old 09-07-2004, 11:45 PM
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Sa'ar & Nic, something early on in your fiver seemed to hint at "How the Animals of the Wood Sent Out A Scientific Expedition", but I may have only been imagining it -- wouldn't be the first time.
A scathing satire of 19th century science's pomposity...but I can't quite see the similarity. Which bits hinted at it?
The perils of many years of reading; my mind makes associations that weren't intended -- in this case between the appearance of the train in the second scene and the appearance of the "Vernal Equinox" in the middle of Part 1 of the Twain. (It's been years since I read that story; at first I couldn't even remember for sure who had written it.)
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