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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
 Dinosaurs
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:06:02 -0500
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On 8/26/2024 9:49 PM, Don wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Don wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Dorothy used to write about "The Star Beast." The Lummox may qualify as
>>> distinctly dinosaur in demeanor.
>>
>> Didn't Lummox have four legs and two arms ?  Not quite a dinosaur.  And
>> her family put her on a severe diet.
> 
> My recently concluded research to answer your question indicates Lummox
> has eight legs and looks like a triceratops.
> 
>      Lummox remained reared up, watching the dog but making
>      no move. He did add to his earlier remark a truthful
>      statement about the dog's ancestry and an untruthful
>      one about his habits; they helped to keep the mastiff
>      berserk. But on the dog's seventh round trip he cut
>      fairly close to where Lummox's first pair of legs would
>      have been had Lummox had all eight feet on the ground...
> 
>      The impression is something like a rhinoceros, something
>      like a triceratops, though the articulation is unlike
>      anything native to this planet. "Lummox" his young master
>      calls him and the name fits.
> 
> # # #
> 
> "Essence of Rex" is by a local sculptor in my town. Apparently female
> rex were considerably larger than males:
> 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHzSPmS79T0>
> 
> Danke,

Thanks !

I need to do research again.  This book is in my six star list of books 
and I have read it several times.  Time for another reread.

Lynn