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From: lsmith@myria.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman #43: Transportation
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:51:51 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <YAMAUCHI.92Oct11125939@sartre.ces.cwru.edu> yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:

>Perhaps this has been answered in previous issues, but I was wondering
>why the Endless needed physical transportation in this issue.  Can't
>Dream simply materialize anywhere he chooses?

I'm not sure what the rules are about Endless travel. When Delirium needed
her list, she just disappeared and went to get it. Dream just fades in and
out when he visits Hippolyta and her baby. There's some talk in an earlier
book about Dream thinking/speaking the name and being there. There's the
galleries, but I tend to think of these as a courtesy between siblings. 

(We have seen the Endless take mundane means of transport. Dream shared
 a ride with John Constantine. Desire appeared in a coach.) 

On the whole I think the roadtrip is just a great plot device. The idea
of Delirium and Dream on the road is just a lot of fun. Having them do
things we do (play with the radio, put their feet up, eat junk food) on
long trips just makes the characters a little bit more accessible. Having
Delirium drive or, more likely, try to drive would be interesting.

(Did anyone notice if the Morgan had a radio or a tape deck? I'm still 
 pulling for at least one Queen song during this trip.)

As others have pointed out, there are ways to justify the road trip (Dream
wanting a diversion is fits well) so the trip isn't totally fanciful. Call
it poetic drivers license.
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    all places were alike to him."    |    Bring me my fastball of fire!"
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: cerebus 162
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:42:15 GMT

Response to minor nit:  the only copy of part III was in Oscar's possession 
(perhaps he had other drafts, but remember his house got torched).  When he was
arrested for lacking artistic license, the Cirinists probably impounded the 
book as evidence or just destroyed it.  Hence, the publisher had no recourse 
but to get another (and necessarily inferior }->) writer for part III.
     Oh, and to defend myself from charges of stupidity in confusing Melmoth 
with Oscar I, I don't have access to #151-#160.  I got into Cerebus last month,
and only have the two recent issues and can borrow phonebooks.  I *did* go over
Melmoth the other day for evidence of Oscarness, but it was ambiguous.  Just 
because Oscar II acts as if Daughter of Palnu was written by another doesn't 
mean he isn't the author.  It's quite possible that he thought of the pre-jail 
life he had as belonging to another...he was obviously not the same man he was 
before jail (whoever that man may have been), and may have taken up referring 
to his old self in 3rd person.  Unless you read #160 (that's the one, right?) 
you really don't know for sure if Melmoth was or wasn't Oscar I.
     Anyway, back to the question that started this whole time-keeping mess:  
Is Astoria pregnant with Cerebus's child?  No.  At least a year passed between 
the second marriage and Jaka's Story.  And if she bore his child in jail, 
there's a good chance she'd no longer *be* in jail (she'd be a Mother, no?).
     Dave Van Domelen, working on the dreaded snout punch, but needs a nose-job
first (to add ON, obviously)
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From: childers@cse.unl.edu (scott childers)
Subject: Re: Marvel 2099 views
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:23:44 GMT

bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:

>I was thinking about Marvel's 2099 series and who from the 1990's would
>still be alive in 2099 given what we have been told.

>The original Dr. Doom:  In an Iron Man comic Dr Doom and Iron Man are
>pulled into the 31st century  where Dr Doom destroys his future self, who
>is little more that a mystic robot.

>Dr. Strange:  In a divergent future (Gardians of the Galaxey(sp)) Strange is
>still around in the 31st century

>The Red Skull:  given his access to cloning equipment and the extended life
>factor of the Super Soldier formula he should still be causing problems.

>Wolverine:  hinted at in GOTG that he MAY still be alive in the 31st
>century.  This is very iffy.

>Machinesmith:  since he is a robot with a human mind, he should still be
>around.

>any comments and additions would be welcome.

Machine Man: he's a robot!

Vision: see Machine Man

Jocasta: could be rebuilt.

Wonder Man: supposed to be Hollywood in GOTG?

Silver Surfer, Firelord: also seen in GOTG.

Original Human Torch:  I know it's a long shot, but I like the character !-)


--
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From: U16244@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: What should be told to all those big cosmic villains
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:28:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

In article <1992Oct8.032321.4188@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) says:
>
>Warning: some language may be unsuitable for minors or people of delicate
>sensibilities.
>     In the recent Doom Patrol, the Templar Kipling tells off the candlemaker
>in a wonderfully rude way.  This is how you should treat big cosmic baddies!
>Even if they kill you after, it's such a wonderful feeling to just tell them
>the hell off, and I quote:
>     "I refuse to listen to this utter shit for one second longer...[villain
>says I'll kill all of you]...Oh, piss off!  I've had *enough* of your pathetic
>sepulchral voice and your shitty death rays.  Go on, then!  Pull my bloody
>head
>off, you ridiculous prick!  I don't think you *can* anymore, can you, you
>wanker?"
>     Rude and crude, but awfully cathartic.  He musta worked in the Abuse
>office for a while. }->
>     Dave Van Domelen, can I vote for Rebis for fave comic babe?  Half a vote?

Reminds me of a line I did in my Fantastic Four homage/spoof.

"Men call me... Crystalsmith."
"Hey honey!  Come quick!  It's another of them 'Men call me' dudes!"

Douglas P. Wojtowicz, a.k.a. Lost Cause Boy.
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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Subject: Re: Matt Wagner (was: Grendel -Warchild)
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Organization: The Institute for Criminal Science, Gizmonics Control
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:27:00 GMT

A brief summary of opinion of Matt Wagner (based almost entirely on his work
on GRENDEL over the last few years.

    a) Wagner goes out of his way to try different styles and plots that are
       different from his previous work; GRENDEL has been one large,
       multi-hued experiment.  He does not appear to enjoy doing the same
       thing over again; continuity is maintained without letting it
       restrict where he wants his story to go.

    b) Some of the GRENDEL arcs are more successful than others (I can think
       of one that just leaves me flat); however, most of them fall between
       very good and bloody marvelous.

    c) Given the results described in b) and the criteria of Wagner's
       writing mentioned in a), I conclude that Matt Wagner is one of those
       rare breeds of mainstream comix writers, a "genius".

[If I was feeling really academic, I'd do a Dave Sim / Matt Wagner 
 comparison article, but I think I'll go home and feed Gamera.]

                           "Imagine his surprise when he sees his children
                            sprawled on the floor like some bizarre Matthew
                            Brady landscape!"
                                           -- Dr. Clayton Forrester

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Ann Arbor/Chicago r.a.c. dinners?
Organization: Interleaf
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:13:39 GMT

I'm going to be in Ann Arbor this Saturday and Sunday the 17th and 18th,
and in Chicago the 19th through the 22nd (well, actually the 23rd, but
I'll be busy up to my departure then). Anyone interested in getting together
for dinner sometime please email with when you're available. I'll be busy
until about 5 p.m. while in Chicago, and my Ann Arbor schedule is fairly
flexible except for Sunday dinner as that'll be about when I fly to Chicago.

"Unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been
approved" --Cook County's finest
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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From: birmingh@fnalo.fnal.gov (Phillip J. Birmingham)
Subject: Duracell cancels Superman licensing agreement
Organization: Blackriver Recorporations, Inc.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:53:11 GMT
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NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


         I heard this on the radio this morning:

         Duracell, which has been using Superman in its ads ("He runs like
    a Duracell," or something like that, the ads say,) has cancelled its
    licensing agreement for Superman. Apparently they don't want people
    making cracks about their batteries being as dead as Superman.

         (Caveat: this was one of those "morning zoo" programs, so it may
    have been a joke. I haven't had time to check it out.)

-- 
 Phillip J. Birmingham   birmingh@fnal.fnal.gov  
 I don't speak for Fermilab, although my mouth is probably big enough...
From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Walrus and April)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Paranoia?
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:32:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw8sAs.AIE
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In article <1992Oct17.000436.6784@ugle.unit.no> leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:
>Okay,
>	I've recently seen that someone's publishing a comic book based on
>West End Games' RPG, Paranoia.  Has anyone out there checked it out?  Is it
>as bad as I think it probably is, or has a miracle occurred, thus actually making
>it a worthwhile read?  I think Paranoia the game is hilarious when done right--
>but is the comic version yet another pile of role-playing spinoff crap?

Well, as an avid Paranoid, I had to read it (at least, some of it), and
I was surprised at the direction they took it in.  The comic is SERIOUS!  
It takes this wacko, quasi-futuristic setting and tries to make a serious 
story out of it.  It centers around King-R-thr, a citizen whose clones have
a unique ability to remember the life of the previous model.  Each book deals
with the life of one of the clones, ending with his . . . untimely demise.  
So you have King realizing just how much the Computer is jerking people 
around, and trying to start a rebellion.  The story is decent, and the clone
memory thing is pretty original (for Paranoia :)), and the artwork is pretty,
if that's what you go for.  It tries to maintain a kind of manic intensity,
and only partially succeeds.  Also, I haven't checked the credits, but the
art reminds me vaguely of Sienkiewicz.  Anybody else notice this, or is it just
me?  I don't think it's him, but the style is similar, and it adds to the 
weird atmosphere.  Overall, it's not bad, but it's not a masterpiece, either.
It'd probably be worth your while to pick up a couple of issues, tho; your 
mileage may vary.

>Leif Kj|nn|y
>leifmk@lise.unit.no

The Walrus
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From: U16244@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.comics.lnh,rec.arts.comics
Subject: Shamless plugs (was Re: LNH : Electrocutioner's Song Advertisement
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:45:37 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

Yes!!!  Yes!!!  Don't forget folks, from the people who brought you
Bloodbloodblood#2, comes the awesome battle of the Legion of Net Heroes.
Yes, twelve complete issues packed with nothing but complete and total carnage
from beginning to end.  Can we have twelve variant covers for each issue?  That
way we can collect all 144 issues, and then have to collect another 288 just to
keep in mint condition, and to get a full set of cards marked for each cover.

Yes!  Yes!!  I can see it now... er wait.  Aren't we supposed to be fighting
this kind of stuff.  Aren't we playing into the hands of ERNIE?

Will Defacto win the day by turning the Legion of Net Heroes into another
grade Z X-men?  Who can save the day?

Well, if we had writer with integrity, we'd be able to do something.
As such, this is a shameless plug for

THE INFINITY WRITER, a limited intelligence miniseries by
Douglas P. Wojtowicz (Lost Cause Boy)
Stephane Savoi (Kid Anarky)
and
Hubert Bartells (Panta)

Look for it in a news.net near you!
From: v124jw4y@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: LNH: Marvel_Zombie Lad/Boy
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:19:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bvrq39.9D7@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v129j6ed@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (This is F.U.N.) writes...
>In article <Bvq7Cv.711@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v124jw4y@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce) writes...
>>Ooops, sorry.  I missed most of Cry.Sig because my STUPID SCHOOL NEWSREADER
>>hasn't seen fit to pick up alt.comics.LNH yet.  I guess I am in a coma, after
>>all...so the current, official status of Marvel_Zombie Lad/Boy is:
>>1. His name is still Marvel Zombie Boy, due to some nefarious plot beyond my
>>   control.
>>2. He's dead.
>>3. He's in a coma.
>>4. He STILL thinks Groo the Wanderer is a good comic.
>>Watch for the "Marvel_Zombie Lad Reborn" one-shot, coming this October to a
>>newsgroup near you!
> 
>Actually, that is yet just another clone of marvel Zombie lad/Boy.  A
>character I'm developing (Mr. Minister) will soon arrive to shove
>MZL's clones everywhere and anywhere, trying to make big money using him
>to boost sales on lesser titles. 




Oh, what do you know about it, anyway?  Go away and let me be comatose/dead/
relegated to the same void as Power Pack in peace...
From: kiemschies@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re Watchman Tribute
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:50:10 EDT

In article <70409@hydra.gatech.EDU>, vapspyo@prism.gatech.EDU (Jon Hughes) writes:
> The Watchmen tribute starts on the cover (check the
> lower left of Myx's campaign poster).  Further in,
> we see Lex picketting MyxCorp(?) with a sign (ala
> the protester).  Later, we see the hook-handed Lex
> sitting at home, eating a can of Heinz beans, and
> someone breaks into his place and throws him out
> the window in perfect mimicry of the art, panel
> sequence, and plot.
> 
> I think there were a few other tributes, but I
> forget them.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan "Jon" Hughes        | My ethicator machine must've had a built-in
> vapspyo@hydra.gatech.edu     | moral compromise spectral release phantasmatron!
> You don't have to be crazy   | I'm a genius! - Calvin, from Attack of the
> to go to Tech, but it helps. | Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
There going nuts with these Watchmen tribute stuff in the superman titles. In
the issue with the Linear men, Superman says "Who keeps the Linear men in
line?"

                                       ----Ollie
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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: WRITER CHARACTERS vs. NON-WRITER CHARACTERS
Summary: a LNH explanation
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:53:37 GMT

Since I coined the terms, I'll explain.

A Writer (and it's writer, "word" was a mistake) Character is a character who
is someone's persona.  An example would be Rebel Yell is mine, Squid Boy is
David Goldfarb's, Kid Frothing-at-the-Mouth is Rick Jones'.  These are usualy
LNH members but can be villains (Dial "D" for Dvandom and Manga Man are examples


A Non-Writer Character has no real world counterpart. Brill Pox is one. Aunt 
Comic Relief is another.  

Got it?

----SCAVENGER aka LIST LAD (a WC)


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From: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: Mothers & Daughters Phone Book
Reply-To: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Organization: Don's Merry Horde of Topologists
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 05:17:13 GMT

david.carter@um.cc.umich.edu (David S. Carter) writes:
> Mothers and Daughters is scheduled to last 50 issues (# 151 - 200).
> I would guess that it will probably be released in two phonebooks,
> like Church & State was.

	Reasonable guess, but actually incorrect. It will actually be 
released in four books. The first one will be released this coming February
and will contain the story from issues 151-162. It's going to be released
through the usual distribution channels right away (unlike the previous
volumes) in both a regular print run and a signed and limited print run.

-Jeff
-- 
Jeff Hildebrand, The Shaggy TA			hildebra@math.wisc.edu
"Join that political superman, secret agent double 0 zero, George Bosh
in his new film, 'Never Just Say No Again.'"      Off The Cuff, R.I.P.
"Did everyone buy that? Good, 'cause I didn't"   The Proof By Snow Job
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From: jholstei@scott.skidmore.edu (jeremy holstein)
Subject: Re: X-men most popular
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:51:50 GMT

sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
> In article <farant.1sl2@terapin.com>, farant@terapin.com (Faran Thomason) writes:
> > Maybe I am nitpicking but.... I just saw an for the X-men Cartoon and it said
> > based on the most popular comic book in the world--X-men! But don't comics in
> > Japan sell more copies than any american comic book ???
> 
> And the X-men probably sell BEST in japan!
> 

Uh-uh.  It's kindof like cars.  The Japenese just aren't too fond of
American comics (with good reason!)
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Albert Elmostein)
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Organization: Master of Time and Space but Mostly Physics
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:42:08 GMT
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In article <1992Oct11.230538.28387@cis.ohio-state.edu>, friedman@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark "Crimson" Friedman) writes:
> I still don't know about the dude with four arms...with three on one
> side of his body!?!?  C'mon!  What kinda biophysics were they
> thinking?  There's gotta be a *reason* why practically all life forms
> are symmetrical!

	Ahem.  Arthropods and vertebrates are bilaterally symmetric because
their long distant ancestors were bilaterally symmetric and bilateral symmetry
is *a* solution to the problem of body design.
	However, you are welcome to go look at, say, your typical oak tree or
your typical paramecium or sponge, to see excellent examples of flourishing
life forms which are not only not bilaterally symmetric, but not symmetric at
all.
	The point here is that symmetry is not universal, but conditional upon
ancestry.  However, you're not very likely to get radical asymmetry from a
symmetric base, so your three-and-one-armed guy is still an oddball.  Just for
different reasons.
	Followups to sci.stephen.jay.gould.evolutionary.biology.
-- 
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein                                                              
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
From: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: PAD.  Is it really him?
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:40:44 GMT
Reply-To: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <70615@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jd53@prism.gatech.EDU (DE LA COVA,JORGE) writes:
~Is the PAD who posts to this newsgroup Peter David, of (recently)
~Hulk fame?
~
~I haven't been involved with the net long enough to know.
~

Yep.  It's him.

--

   *A* 


Andy Lee
lee@n2itiv.enet.dec.com   or   ...!decwrl!n2itiv.enet.dec.com!lee
lee@torrid.pko.dec.com    or   ...!decwrl!torrid.pko.dec.com!lee
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: A bunch of sigs
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:45:32 GMT

Well, I don't have the time for a 'real' article, but here's some random stuff 
that woulda been sigs to real articles:
     If nothing else, having broken bilateral symmetry makes balancing hell
     Cyberforce looks like they came out of Spiral's Body Shoppe (but then, 
remember who made up said Shoppe)
     Defending a attacks on the claim that a book is the best ever by saying 
"Well, it's no worse than recent Marvel crap" kinda falls flat.
     Dave Van Domelen, Bush sounded like Eccles tonight ("Everything's foine, 
foine....")
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From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: Sandman: Darkness in Corinth (Small Spoiler)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:04:01 GMT

 lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:


>To use a hackeyed expression, he's baaaaaaccccckkkkkkkk!
>
>The Corinthian will be making an appearance in this story line. In fact,
>I think he shows up in the next issue. Sounds like fun.  

Back? I don't think so. I think we merely see him again.

Tanaqui
From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: gender benders
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:00:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw6CoJ.958
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Gender benders, hmmmmmm........

1.  "Mama" from 3x3 Eyes
2.  Desire of the Endless, depending on who's watching
3.  Lobo (we need a *man*woman*squirrel* category here)
4.  Ziggy (Computer on QL)
5.  Shade
6.  Lassie
7.  Mockingbird
8.  Ranma, natch!  Grab those buckets......
9.  KD LANG!!!!!
From: lsmith@hecto.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: PAD. Is it really him?
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:02:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Oct13.210248.21881
Distribution: na
Organization: The Little Squids of Camelot

In article <67633@cup.portal.com> Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com writes:
>I feel a song coming on:
>
>C'est Moi, C'est Moi, I'm forced to admit,
>'Tis I, I humbly reply
>That mortal who
>These Marvels can do
>C'est Moi, C'est Moi, 'tis I.

Hey! I thought I got to do this song. 

Or was it it Visser?
--
     Lance "William Blake?" Smith     |   "Bring me my bat of burning gold!
         (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)          |    Bring me my pine tar of desire!
 "The Cat. He walked by himself, and  |    Bring me my glove! O clouds unfold!
    all places were alike to him."    |    Bring me my fastball of fire!"
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