"HellPopeHuey" <HellPopeHuey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Denis Loubet wrote:
>
>> "Doc Savage" <englandoccupant1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:1158986131.230552.324490@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> With a handle like Doc Savage, your extreme oath should be:
>>
>> Let me strive, every moment of my life, to make myself better and
>> better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it.
>>
>> Let me think of the right, and lend all my assistance to those who
need
>> it, with no regard for anything but justice.
>>
>> Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage.
>>
>> Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my
>> associates in everything I say and do.
>>
>> Let me do right to all, and wrong no man.
>
> Oh, that sounds like far too much work. Where's the FUN in it?
>
> I read most of those great Kenneth Robeson potboilers. At least it was
> INTELLIGENT pulp that had some regard for, oh, say, PHYSICS. Those
killer
> Bama covers on Bantam were my first non-fine-art exposure to the idea
that
> you could use superior techniques on wild-haired things. Things began
> going both up- and downhill from there. Doc Savage, Pulp Uncle of My
> Youth. He taught me what f**k means, "Bob" bless 'im.
Cool! :-)
I was more into Conan and John Carter of Mars myself. Great stuff!
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Denis Loubet
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