[meteorite-list] OT Vesta / Mushroom planet

From: Bob King <nightsky55_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:55:41 -0500
Message-ID: <CAG5KyVkZHCThZwsarj0zLB9OW6TXu4izsmv9M9H0S4+-FvTk7w_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,
I never knew that about Cameron. Pity, she wrote such wonderful books
about the mushroom planet. I managed over the years to acquire the
complete series, but the best in my opinion were the first two - the
Flight and the Stowaway. I credit these books with sparking my
interest in science and astronomy in grade school.
Bob

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Sterling K. Webb
<sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear Mushroom Men,
>
>> ...fighting it out with Charlie's authors...
>
> Authors? There is but the ONE author, the late great
> Roald Dahl [Wing Commander Dahl, 1916 -- 1990],
> author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James
> and the Giant Peach, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda,
> The Witches, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass
> Elevator, The BFG, The Gremlins, The Enormous Crocodile,
> Esio Trot, George's Marvellous Medicine, Danny, the
> Champion of the World, The Giraffe and the Pelly and
> Me, The Minpins, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke, The Magic
> Finger, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and...
>
> When he died in 1990, he was buried with his favorite
> snooker cues, some very good burgundy and of course,
> lots of chocolates, a box of HB pencils and a power saw
> in case it was, well, too confining in there.
>
> Eleanor Frances Butler Cameron (1912?1996) criticized
> the book for the Evil Mr. Wonka's "unfeeling attitude
> toward the Oompa-Loompas, their role as conveniences
> and devices to be used for Wonka?s purposes, their being
> brought over from Africa for enforced servitude, and the
> fact that their situation is all a part of the fun and games.
> I find it regrettable, too, that Willy Wonka, through the
> cleverness of his advertising, can triumphantly convince
> Charlie that life lived forever inside the factory, enclosed
> as in a prison, is the height of all possible bliss, with here
> again no word said, nothing expressed, that would
> question this idea."
Received on Mon 18 Jul 2011 09:55:41 AM PDT