[SOC] Special thought for my Rosbeef Friends

[Paul Bartlett]

Hi Claude,

I didn't know you were Parisian. I thought you were French.

Paul ;-)

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> Hello agn,
>
> Being one of those numerous "Parisians" spending at least 3 hours in
public
> transports per day (to/from working place), I have some "free time" for
reading.
>
> I am presently "visiting" some strange land called Caspak. And here is
> something read this morning I would like to dedicate to Paul & Chris (and
all
> Friends who feel concerned) :
>
> << BEGIN OF QUOTE
>
> "Luata!" she exclaimed."How came you here ?"
> Bradley shrugged."Here I am", he said;"but the thing now is to get out of
here--
> both of us".
>
> The girl shook her head. "It cannot be", she stated sadly.
>
> "That is what I thought when they dropped me into the Blue Place of Seven
> Skulls," replied Bradley. "Can't be done. I did it.--Here! You're mussing
up
> the floor something awful, you".This last to the dead Wieroo as he stooped
and
> dragged the corpse to the central shaft, where he raised it to the
aperture and
> let it slip into the tube. Then he picked up the head and tossed it after
the
> body. "Don't be so glum," he admonished the former as he carried it toward
the
> well; "smile!"
>
> "But how can he smile ?" questionned the girl, a half-puzzled,
half-frighteneed
> look upon her face. "He is dead".
>
> "That's so," admitted Bradley,"and I suppose he does feel a bit cut up
about
> it".
>
> The girl shook her head and edged away from the man--toward the door.
>
> "Come!" said the Englishman. "We've got to get out of here. If you don't
know a
> better way than the river, it's the river then."
>
> The girl still eyed him askance. "But how could he smile when he was dead
?"
>
> Bradley laughed aloud. "I thought we English were supposed to have the
least
> sense of humor of any people in the world," he cried;"but now I've found
one
> human being who hasn't any.(...)"
>
> END OF QUOTE >>
>
> in "Out of time's Abyss" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>
> ;o)
>
> 72!
> Claude
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