Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Jay E. Morris
On 4-Dec-2009, "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Topical for RASFW, one A. Bertram Chandler's(1) "Commodore Grimes"
> stories featured a planet that had inhabitants very much like
> Australian Aborigines, and a rock very much like Ayer's/Uluru.
It was "very much like" because it was Australian Aborignies and it was
Ayer's/Uluru. They tried to blame him for it flying off.
I'd have to re-read it to be sure but I think it was the two women he was
with that for some reason activated the machinery.
Richard Todd
> On 4-Dec-2009, "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Topical for RASFW, one A. Bertram Chandler's(1) "Commodore Grimes"
>> stories featured a planet that had inhabitants very much like
>> Australian Aborigines, and a rock very much like Ayer's/Uluru.
> It was "very much like" because it was Australian Aborignies and it was
> Ayer's/Uluru. They tried to blame him for it flying off.
No, it was just a rock like Ayers/Uluru on another planet:
And then they came to the Cragge Rock reserve. "Cragge Rock," said the
driver into his microphone, "is named after Captain Cragge, Master of
the Lode Jumbuk, just as the planet itself is named after his wife,
Olga." He paused. "Perhaps somewhere in the Galaxy there's a mountain
that will be called Grimes Rock--but with all due respect to the
distinguished spaceman in our midst he'll have to try hard to find the
equal to Cragge Rock! The Rock, folks is the largest monolith in the
known Universe--just a solid hunk of granite. Five miles long, a mile
across, half a mile high." He turned his attention to Tanya and Moira.
"Bigger than your Ayers Rock, ladies!"
(ebooks are wonderful things, aren't they?)
> I'd have to re-read it to be sure but I think it was the two women he was
> with that for some reason activated the machinery.
Yeah, the two women were descendants of Australian Aboriginies, as was
Grimes's companion "Spooky" Deane (psionic radio officer for Grimes's ship)
and they activated the rock:
"What the hell are you talking about, Spooky?"
"I'm an Australian, like Moira and Tanya here. Like them, I have the
Old Blood in my veins. Unlike them, I'm a spaceman. Do you think that
after all these years in the Service I, with my talent, haven't learned
how to handle and navigate a ship, any ship? I shall take my people
back to where they belong."
Default User
>
> On 4-Dec-2009, "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Topical for RASFW, one A. Bertram Chandler's(1) "Commodore Grimes"
> > stories featured a planet that had inhabitants very much like
> > Australian Aborigines, and a rock very much like Ayer's/Uluru.
>
> It was "very much like" because it was Australian Aborignies and it
> was Ayer's/Uluru. They tried to blame him for it flying off.
You mean the story took place on Earth? I don't think so.
> I'd have to re-read it to be sure but I think it was the two women he
> was with that for some reason activated the machinery.
Something along those lines.
Brian
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Robert Carnegie
> "Jay E. Morris" <mor...@epsilon3.com> writes:
>
> > On 4-Dec-2009, "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Topical for RASFW, one A. Bertram Chandler's(1) "Commodore Grimes"
> >> stories featured a planet that had inhabitants very much like
> >> Australian Aborigines, and a rock very much like Ayer's/Uluru.
>
> > It was "very much like" because it was Australian Aborignies and it was
> > Ayer's/Uluru. They tried to blame him for it flying off.
>
> No, it was just a rock like Ayers/Uluru on another planet:
>
> And then they came to the Cragge Rock reserve. "Cragge Rock," said the
> driver into his microphone, "is named after Captain Cragge, Master of
> the Lode Jumbuk, just as the planet itself is named after his wife,
> Olga." He paused. "Perhaps somewhere in the Galaxy there's a mountain
> that will be called Grimes Rock--but with all due respect to the
> distinguished spaceman in our midst he'll have to try hard to find the
> equal to Cragge Rock! The Rock, folks is the largest monolith in the
> known Universe--just a solid hunk of granite. Five miles long, a mile
> across, half a mile high." He turned his attention to Tanya and Moira.
> "Bigger than your Ayers Rock, ladies!"
>
> (ebooks are wonderful things, aren't they?)
>
> > I'd have to re-read it to be sure but I think it was the two women he was
> > with that for some reason activated the machinery.
When Chandler concentrates on describing female characters, he usually
activates my machinery, too. ;-)
> Yeah, the two women were descendants of Australian Aboriginies, as was
> Grimes's companion "Spooky" Deane (psionic radio officer for Grimes's ship)
> and they activated the rock:
>
> "What the hell are you talking about, Spooky?"
>
> "I'm an Australian, like Moira and Tanya here. Like them, I have the
> Old Blood in my veins. Unlike them, I'm a spaceman. Do you think that
> after all these years in the Service I, with my talent, haven't learned
> how to handle and navigate a ship, any ship? I shall take my people
> back to where they belong."
This kind of points to Ayers Rock being a somewhat smaller model of
the same equipment. Or maybe just the inspiration of it.
Now in pictures it doesn't make me think "flying saucer", but there's
a lot that I don't know about flying saucer construction.
Jay E. Morris
Damn. Half right at least. I'll fade into the background now for another
year or two.
Keith F. Lynch
> ... "Perhaps somewhere in the Galaxy there's a mountain that will be
> called Grimes Rock--but with all due respect to the distinguished
> spaceman in our midst he'll have to try hard to find the equal to
> Cragge Rock! The Rock, folks is the largest monolith in the known
> Universe--just a solid hunk of granite. Five miles long, a mile
> across, half a mile high." He turned his attention to Tanya and
> Moira. "Bigger than your Ayers Rock, ladies!"
He wouldn't have to go far from Ayers Rock, at least not on a galactic
scale. Georgia's Stone Mountain is a larger block of granite.
(That's Georgia USA, not Georgia in the former USSR.)
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Lon
> Richard Todd <rmt...@ichotolot.servalan.com> quoted:
>> ... "Perhaps somewhere in the Galaxy there's a mountain that will be
>> called Grimes Rock--but with all due respect to the distinguished
>> spaceman in our midst he'll have to try hard to find the equal to
>> Cragge Rock! The Rock, folks is the largest monolith in the known
>> Universe--just a solid hunk of granite. Five miles long, a mile
>> across, half a mile high." He turned his attention to Tanya and
>> Moira. "Bigger than your Ayers Rock, ladies!"
>
> He wouldn't have to go far from Ayers Rock, at least not on a galactic
> scale. Georgia's Stone Mountain is a larger block of granite.
>
> (That's Georgia USA, not Georgia in the former USSR.)
Not much of a contest, I have a larger slab of granite than Ayers in my
kitchen.
On the other hand, I'd need to drive at least 4 to 5 miles to see larger
hunks of *sandstone*
Hatunen
<k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>Richard Todd <rmt...@ichotolot.servalan.com> quoted:
>> ... "Perhaps somewhere in the Galaxy there's a mountain that will be
>> called Grimes Rock--but with all due respect to the distinguished
>> spaceman in our midst he'll have to try hard to find the equal to
>> Cragge Rock! The Rock, folks is the largest monolith in the known
>> Universe--just a solid hunk of granite. Five miles long, a mile
>> across, half a mile high." He turned his attention to Tanya and
>> Moira. "Bigger than your Ayers Rock, ladies!"
>
>He wouldn't have to go far from Ayers Rock, at least not on a galactic
>scale. Georgia's Stone Mountain is a larger block of granite.
>
>(That's Georgia USA, not Georgia in the former USSR.)
You're comparing apples and oranges. Or, better, granite and
sandstone.
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