Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gary McGath Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: MT VOID, 08/23/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 8, Whole Number 2342 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:43:43 -0400 Organization: Mad Scientists' Union Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:43:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="766c2ba30dec40df1e86b412642ca4fd"; logging-data="2178367"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GFJvDZZ9WsBgNGdU9sbs+RZfKBgNZvwg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vlCzY1rc4ErzypjeA4t/RDk19Ho= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1912 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? -- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com