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   Message 136,159 of 137,311   
   Gary McGath to Evelyn C. Leeper   
   Re: MT VOID, 08/23/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 8,   
   25 Aug 24 15:43:43   
   
   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 8/25/24 11:08 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > I, TARZAN (2017): I, TARZAN (a.k.a. "I, TARZAN": A TRUE STORY,   
   > a.k.a. I, TARZAN: WHAT IF IT WERE TRUE?) is an hour-long   
   > "mockumentary" which starts with the assumption that Tarzan was   
   > real.  (This is not an original approach; Sherlock Holmes fans   
   > have been doing this for decades.)  Various Tarzan scholars and   
   > fans  show off their collections and talk about Tarzan's origins   
   > and life.  For example, Philip Jose Farmer says that Edgar Rice   
   > Burroughs purposely concealed the true location of Tarzan's home.   
   > Burroughs says it is 1500 miles north of Capetown, but there are   
   > no gorillas that far south.  Farmer somehow determines where the   
   > actual location was.   
      
   Does Farmer address how Tarzan learned to speak English when he had   
   access only to written and printed materials?   
      
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