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Fantascience Digest, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 12, January-February 1940
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Page 22 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST [IMAGE] THE Frolic Apace EDWARD ELMER CAMPBELL JR. PART 1 - IN A QUANDRY OR DIRE-STRAITED DILEMMA Richard Seaton and Martin Crane weer busy in their laboratory that fateful June morning. They were always busy in their laboratory, whether the morning be fateful, the month be June, or ti be morning; for they were two of the world's greatest engineers -- as they modestly put it, the two greatest. They were, at the time our story begins, engaged in developing a gamma-beta-zeta ray of the twenty-third level, capable of exploring the sixteenth dimension. Seaton, with the aid of a short ferrule which he used to emphasize his major points, was delivering a lecture to Crane at the moment. "With this sub-helix," he remarked, indicating it with a tap, "we have a centrifugal perambulating pinwheel exerting a centripetal, monagamous force upon a paraboloid parboiled ratchet-shifting mixmaster. Also, you will note that the baffle-flares of the ganglion wires extend from the super-charger to the six-point-zero -zero-zero-zero hexamater, which is thickly coated with potassium of permanganate in order to allow triassic traction on the epiglottis." Crane nodded, his brown eyes thoughtfully following the ever-moving pointer, and Seaton allowed himself a deep breath before continuing: "Now! Combine this verifuge with this homosphere of hyperpelosity, and subtract six mm. of hydrochloric bisulfide of nitrate, and what have you got?" Crane brightened perceptibly. "I'll bite. What have you got?" "Gosh!" Dick ejaculated in disappointment, "I thought you'd know!" "Well, I don't" Crane res-
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Page 22 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST [IMAGE] THE Frolic Apace EDWARD ELMER CAMPBELL JR. PART 1 - IN A QUANDRY OR DIRE-STRAITED DILEMMA Richard Seaton and Martin Crane weer busy in their laboratory that fateful June morning. They were always busy in their laboratory, whether the morning be fateful, the month be June, or ti be morning; for they were two of the world's greatest engineers -- as they modestly put it, the two greatest. They were, at the time our story begins, engaged in developing a gamma-beta-zeta ray of the twenty-third level, capable of exploring the sixteenth dimension. Seaton, with the aid of a short ferrule which he used to emphasize his major points, was delivering a lecture to Crane at the moment. "With this sub-helix," he remarked, indicating it with a tap, "we have a centrifugal perambulating pinwheel exerting a centripetal, monagamous force upon a paraboloid parboiled ratchet-shifting mixmaster. Also, you will note that the baffle-flares of the ganglion wires extend from the super-charger to the six-point-zero -zero-zero-zero hexamater, which is thickly coated with potassium of permanganate in order to allow triassic traction on the epiglottis." Crane nodded, his brown eyes thoughtfully following the ever-moving pointer, and Seaton allowed himself a deep breath before continuing: "Now! Combine this verifuge with this homosphere of hyperpelosity, and subtract six mm. of hydrochloric bisulfide of nitrate, and what have you got?" Crane brightened perceptibly. "I'll bite. What have you got?" "Gosh!" Dick ejaculated in disappointment, "I thought you'd know!" "Well, I don't" Crane res-
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