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wow!! beautiful work, and in your unique style
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Is SHE!!!
The world will never be safe anymore!!!
(Great novel by Ridder Haggar)
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I don't know who Ayesha is for younger people, but when I was young, 1950's, she was a magical woman who was eternally young, in two novels by H. Ryder Haggard who wrote King Solomon's Mines.
He was not a literary author but his stories were good adventures rather like films made more recently.
I like your picture.
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Aha!
I didn't know if these books were still well known.
My father had read them and I did when I was a teenager.
Just adventures, nothing to study in them. Just fun.
I still remember the scene I imagined when Ayesha grew very old and shrivelled up as she finally died.
Real rubbish but I didn't care. I also read Jeffrey Farnol, another of the same level. Very romantic.
His books were always love stories.
Now it was very funny.
I went to a Catholic school as a teenager. We were taken to the sisters' library every week and allowed to read what wanted. The books had been donated by parents I suppose.
Now, I found around ten Farnol novels there and read them. I am pretty certain that the nuns didn't know what I was reading.
Of course it was very "clean" by modern standards, but still.
The headmistress did give us a lecture on "Chastity in marriage" one day! We were very indignant.
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Their definitely being read and influencing generations of storytellers. Sometimes I don't think some of the writers are aware of the original source material.
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That's what I thought.
They were strange stories that mixed up several sources: English/American, Black African, and Arab as Aïsha is an Arab name.
They make me think of Indiana Jones films.
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I'm sure George Lucas and Steven Spielberg borrowed heavily from this source material for the Indiana Jones material
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If you don't mind my chatter, I'll tell you a funny story.
I'm from England originally. My elder son has a friend who comes from the English aristocracy.
Once on a trip to the US he went to a reception where he met Steven Spielberg.
They shook hands and each of them presented himself. Steven Speilburg ... Karlsefane Hugget.
Our friend didn't know who Speilberg was and asked him what he did in life...
After, when he found out, he told my son about it with a laugh.
I bet Spielberg was the most surprised!
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Thanks for sharing. Quite amusing. I guess we all should eat some humble pie from time to time
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