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Fanfare, whole no. 10, December 1943
Page 7
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7 Now she was falling gently upward, feet first. She felt the pressure of anti-gravity against her soles. Above her she saw the horse-faced individual, his scarf whipping about his ears. His time machine & a couple of pill boxes were tumbling merrily along beside him. A halo of tears surrounded his equine head. Above the sound of his sobbing rose the impassioned bellow of a bull-ape. "Ah!" thot Alicia. "Johnny Weismuller! This must be Pellucidar!" An instant later she popped out of the manhole, caromed off the ceiling, & landed in a rest position on the floor. The mournful stranger had disappeared, but on an ebonite table lay his two pill boxes. She opened them immediately. One lot was pink & the other mauve. She stuck out a tentative tongue & licked the paint off the mauve one. Immediately she felt a disconcerting looseness in the region of last year's waistline. Reducing pills! She reached hastily for a pink one. The lights went out! In a moment they came on again. This time they were green & flickery. Alicia reached for the pills. They had vanished! Only two were left, & in the green light she couldn't tell which was which. Something gave. Alicia paled. There wasn't much to give. Things were getting ticklish! Desperately she snatched up a pill & popped it into her mouth. Before it reached her tonsils the world shot up into largeness. She teetered for a moment with one foot on the edge of each shoe, like a circus rider, then collapsed into one heel. Her clothes dropped around her like a Hollywood blizzard. Thru the large square openings between the threads she saw the sad-faced individual pop in at a little door in the corner of the room. Halfway across the floor he vanished into thin air. Hastily she bit a mouthful off the other pill. The room collapsed. There was a
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7 Now she was falling gently upward, feet first. She felt the pressure of anti-gravity against her soles. Above her she saw the horse-faced individual, his scarf whipping about his ears. His time machine & a couple of pill boxes were tumbling merrily along beside him. A halo of tears surrounded his equine head. Above the sound of his sobbing rose the impassioned bellow of a bull-ape. "Ah!" thot Alicia. "Johnny Weismuller! This must be Pellucidar!" An instant later she popped out of the manhole, caromed off the ceiling, & landed in a rest position on the floor. The mournful stranger had disappeared, but on an ebonite table lay his two pill boxes. She opened them immediately. One lot was pink & the other mauve. She stuck out a tentative tongue & licked the paint off the mauve one. Immediately she felt a disconcerting looseness in the region of last year's waistline. Reducing pills! She reached hastily for a pink one. The lights went out! In a moment they came on again. This time they were green & flickery. Alicia reached for the pills. They had vanished! Only two were left, & in the green light she couldn't tell which was which. Something gave. Alicia paled. There wasn't much to give. Things were getting ticklish! Desperately she snatched up a pill & popped it into her mouth. Before it reached her tonsils the world shot up into largeness. She teetered for a moment with one foot on the edge of each shoe, like a circus rider, then collapsed into one heel. Her clothes dropped around her like a Hollywood blizzard. Thru the large square openings between the threads she saw the sad-faced individual pop in at a little door in the corner of the room. Halfway across the floor he vanished into thin air. Hastily she bit a mouthful off the other pill. The room collapsed. There was a
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