From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:40:46 -0700, William Vetter wrote:   
      
   > I read Tarzan of the Apes last week for a reason involved with one of my   
   > projects.   
   >   
   > One thing I noticed was that he never swung from a vine in this book.   
   >   
   > I think that he wrote about 20 Tarzan books, and I don't think I'm going   
   > to read the rest.   
   >   
   > My question is whether he ever swings from a vine in any of the others,   
   > or was that entirely an invention of movies.   
      
   Real-life vines have an annoying habit of being attached to the ground   
   via roots, which rather limits how much of an arc they can swing through.   
      
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