When I was a kid growing up in Maryland in the 1950's, one day I stumbled across an old book in the library with the distinctive title, "A Princess of Mars." It was written (so the title page revealed) by an author with an equally unusual-sounding name -- "Edgar Rice Burroughs" ... in a year that seemed to a wide-eyed ten-year old almost as ancient as the Pyramids themselves: 1917!
Curious, I flipped through the first few pages ... and was immediately captivated by the lavish illustrations and highly evocative descriptions ... of an exotic, distant land (world?) that (for some strange reason) Burroughs insisted on calling throughout the book (despite the title on the dust jacket ...)-- "Barsoom." Miraculously, I was allowed to check this first-edition out on my own (even though it wasn't in the "juvenile" section of the library ... and, in addition, was extremely valuable), and actually take it home. Then, like John Carter -- the hero in Burrough's extraordinary tale -- almost at once, I found myself on Mars-- Amid strange references to "thoats," the "Great Toonoolian Marshes," "Siths" and "the Princess of Helium," Burroughs (and his son -- who did the illustrations) literally painted a stark, haunting image of "a dying desert world," populated by warring factions of alien "Red, White and Green Martians," all fighting over the few remaining reservoirs of water ... surrounded by equally alien (and sometimes dramatically aggressive -- below) fauna and flora of an alien land .... Whole story with pictures here Enterprise mission http://www.paranormalpalace.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paranormalpromotions/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/98XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Visit our Psychic/Paranormal message boards at http://www.skatemd.com/forums/index.php Arcade, Journals, Chats, Boards, Fun! Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paranormal_stuff/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
