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Fantasy Digest, v. 1, issue 6, August-September 1939
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FANTASY DIGEST 21 THE STRANGE CASE OF RAZBERIPOP by N. Ricutner, Jr. The mysterious affair started in "beanery". Razberipop was an oriental, & on his first day at Oso "Hi"...."These are milk nickels," a new acquaintance explained. "If you get stuck with 'free' on it, you get another for nothing." "So?" asked Razberi (as we shall call him for short) in his (marsh) mellow voice, & bought one. "I hope I get a winner!" he remarked. And he did. Receiving a second milk nickel for the lucky stick, he thot, "I hope this keeps up! I like these." Strangely, the ice cream bar was also a winner. In fact, he kept going back & back; had gotten eight straight free ones before his phenomenal success was interrupted by the bell. "Beginner's Luck?" But there weren't that many free ones packed! Now any student of Oso knows that the halls are particularly crowded at lunch-time---if not all other periods---only at lunch-time the students are slower in moving to classes. Razberi was in a hurry to get to his locker, for he was conscientious, & did not wish to be late to class. Consequently, it was not unusual for him to remark, "I wish these guys'd shake a leg." No, that wasn't unusual; but---when about 400 students stopt in their tracks & stood wiggling first their right & then their left...! At his locker, he found the tricky lock would not respond to the combination he had been given. (He had not bee initiated into the process of opening the lock by three hard bangs & a smash to the underside.) "Nertz!" he growled. "They oughta have locks that open themselves," whereupon it twirled to 24 right, 19 left, 38 right, & swung open. Also, he got the nuts---or---nertz... Of course, the strange behavior of his Razberipop is now common knowledge; or, rather, not his strange behavior, but the unaccountable manner in which persons around him acted. For instance, the episode in a history class where, as if in obedience to a silent command, the teacher went & jumped in a nearby lake. Recall the day when Razberi's gym teacher took ten laps, as tho someone had said, "I WISH he'd run them himself!" Many are the amazed students, too, who took tests in rooms with Razberi, for it was the common procedure for the exam to be called off almost at the start---just like so many always hoped: "I wish this was all over!" Never will witnesses forget the astounding fight Raz had with a "tough-guy" when the opponent appeared in turn to become a dog-faced babboon, a long-legged donkey, a rat, a squared-headed nut, & a little run, as tho mirroring Razberi's thots about him. Then it all ended. Tho baffling to the graduating class, & quite unexpected by all, it was perhaps with a sigh of relief that Razberi was found on the stage Commencement Nite. "I wish I was graduated," he had thot. But one interesting note now remains to complete this riotous tale of the remarkable Razberi. It was in a math class, before he had left school, that he fell victim to his own unusual power. A detailed, & to Razberi boring, theorem was being illustrated & discussed. Suddenly, his hand flew to his neck, & he moaned and groaned, the while rubbing it. He yowled & screamed & tossed & struggled; for he had mumbled to himself, "This gives me a pain in the neck"...! (Author's Note: I AM POSITIVELY NOT BRADBURY)
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FANTASY DIGEST 21 THE STRANGE CASE OF RAZBERIPOP by N. Ricutner, Jr. The mysterious affair started in "beanery". Razberipop was an oriental, & on his first day at Oso "Hi"...."These are milk nickels," a new acquaintance explained. "If you get stuck with 'free' on it, you get another for nothing." "So?" asked Razberi (as we shall call him for short) in his (marsh) mellow voice, & bought one. "I hope I get a winner!" he remarked. And he did. Receiving a second milk nickel for the lucky stick, he thot, "I hope this keeps up! I like these." Strangely, the ice cream bar was also a winner. In fact, he kept going back & back; had gotten eight straight free ones before his phenomenal success was interrupted by the bell. "Beginner's Luck?" But there weren't that many free ones packed! Now any student of Oso knows that the halls are particularly crowded at lunch-time---if not all other periods---only at lunch-time the students are slower in moving to classes. Razberi was in a hurry to get to his locker, for he was conscientious, & did not wish to be late to class. Consequently, it was not unusual for him to remark, "I wish these guys'd shake a leg." No, that wasn't unusual; but---when about 400 students stopt in their tracks & stood wiggling first their right & then their left...! At his locker, he found the tricky lock would not respond to the combination he had been given. (He had not bee initiated into the process of opening the lock by three hard bangs & a smash to the underside.) "Nertz!" he growled. "They oughta have locks that open themselves," whereupon it twirled to 24 right, 19 left, 38 right, & swung open. Also, he got the nuts---or---nertz... Of course, the strange behavior of his Razberipop is now common knowledge; or, rather, not his strange behavior, but the unaccountable manner in which persons around him acted. For instance, the episode in a history class where, as if in obedience to a silent command, the teacher went & jumped in a nearby lake. Recall the day when Razberi's gym teacher took ten laps, as tho someone had said, "I WISH he'd run them himself!" Many are the amazed students, too, who took tests in rooms with Razberi, for it was the common procedure for the exam to be called off almost at the start---just like so many always hoped: "I wish this was all over!" Never will witnesses forget the astounding fight Raz had with a "tough-guy" when the opponent appeared in turn to become a dog-faced babboon, a long-legged donkey, a rat, a squared-headed nut, & a little run, as tho mirroring Razberi's thots about him. Then it all ended. Tho baffling to the graduating class, & quite unexpected by all, it was perhaps with a sigh of relief that Razberi was found on the stage Commencement Nite. "I wish I was graduated," he had thot. But one interesting note now remains to complete this riotous tale of the remarkable Razberi. It was in a math class, before he had left school, that he fell victim to his own unusual power. A detailed, & to Razberi boring, theorem was being illustrated & discussed. Suddenly, his hand flew to his neck, & he moaned and groaned, the while rubbing it. He yowled & screamed & tossed & struggled; for he had mumbled to himself, "This gives me a pain in the neck"...! (Author's Note: I AM POSITIVELY NOT BRADBURY)
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