From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:15:07 PM UTC-4, John F. Eldredge wrote:   
   > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:40:46 -0700, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > I read Tarzan of the Apes last week for a reason involved with one of my   
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   > > One thing I noticed was that he never swung from a vine in this book.   
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   > > I think that he wrote about 20 Tarzan books, and I don't think I'm going   
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   > > to read the rest.   
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   > > My question is whether he ever swings from a vine in any of the others,   
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   > > or was that entirely an invention of movies.   
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   > Real-life vines have an annoying habit of being attached to the ground   
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   > via roots, which rather limits how much of an arc they can swing through.   
      
   We know that it's nonsense.   
   I want to distinguish ERB's nonsense from Hollywood's nonsense.   
      
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