From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:53:44 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 2:49:04 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > What I see from the first volume:   
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   > > 1) "Me Tarzan; you Jane," is absent; that Tarzan initially could read   
   English at perhaps a seventh grade level, but knew how to speak none at all.   
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   > > 2) The signature yell from the movies is never described, except as "the   
   battle cry of the bull great ape."   
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   > > 3) Africa has a nearly complete canopy of foliage that Tarzan travels   
   through primarily by running along branches.   
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   > > 4) The coastline of Africa abounds in pirate coves; the coastline is   
   essentially the same as the setting in Treasure Island.   
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   > > 5) Tarzan has a pecking order relationship with Great Apes, has a   
   wait-and-see attitude toward White humans, and regards colored Africans as   
   inherently brutal savages.   
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   > I loved these books when I read them in high school.  It is very very true,   
   however, that they were written at a time when Darwinism and evolution of   
   humans to higher forms and a new understanding of genetics and a fashion for   
   eugenics was the *   
   enlightened* and *scientific* view.  Something that was apparent even to a 16   
   year old.   
   >    
   > In the end I don't blame ERB for including monkeys, gorillas, apes and   
   humans of various races in a continuum of evolutionary progress.  It's both   
   appalling and quaint and, mostly, important as a lesson on scientific hubris.   
   >    
   You gotta know the "Great Apes" that raised Tarzan never existed.   
      
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