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Article #2563Re: X-Men and Ruritania (Zenda that is)
From: Soren Petersen
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1986 23:33
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1986 23:33
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In article <145@gsg.UUCP> kathy@gsg.UUCP (Kathryn Smith) writes: >For those who don't get the reference, Ruritania >is a ficticious central European country created by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner >of Zenda. I haven't read the original myself, but judging by the Classics >Illustrated version which I read years ago, it's pulp melodrama, narrated by an >English Gentleman, and probably pretty heavy going. > I have read *The Prisoner of Zenda*, and I enjoyed it immensely. Yes it is pretty much 'pulp meladrama' but I didn't find it heavy going at all. It has been very much by imitated pulp writers ever since--I remember a Hitchcock presents--Three investigators book which was very remeniscent, and for that matter, Ruritania looks like a direct ancestor of our own Latveria. Have a Nice Day Soren Petersen
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!reed!soren From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: X-Men and Ruritania (Zenda that is) Message-ID: <2470@reed.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 18:33:27 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2470 Posted: Fri Feb 7 18:33:27 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 04:05:41 EST References: <2640@colossus.fluke.UUCP> <145@gsg.UUCP> Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 15