“I strained my eyes after him, and then in the moonlight I could make out the inalienable outline of his figure receding into the distance. He was the man who rode into our little valley out of the heart of the great glowing [east] and when his work was done rode back whence he had come and he was [Robot Lincoln].” (With apologies to Jack Schaefer.)


Goodnight, Robot Lincoln, wherever you are.

"Don't leave Shane!" I loved Shane.

Robot Lincoln will always be in our hearts and mind...

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Marian's "stump pie" was second to none!

One of the best saloon fight scenes in any Western made!

Jack Palance is one actor I love to hate too, second only to Bruce Dern.

Chap, thanks so much for NOT writing "FROM whence he had come" in your above post!

We all miss Robot Lincoln here at Marionettes, Inc.
He hasn't been the same anyway since "Downwind from Gettysburg"...

Dare I ask...what happened to Robot Lincoln?

Dandy, the bad news is he was shot by a crazy publicity-seeking guy named Booth.
The good news is he's come back as "duskmurmur".

(He's posted an explanation around here somewhere.)

I've shed my metalic skin, Dandy....

Bralling II, my hearty second to your happiness in not seeing "From whence he come." I am amazed that so many people are not aware that "whence" means "from where," and to say "from whence" is being redundant.

What? What? "Redundancy!" Again?

Nice catch, BII and BI.

I've been thinking about changing my name to "toadstool". Nope, no reasoning behind it whatsoever.

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About the only part of SHANE that I remember is the "always sit with your back to the wall" bit. I remember it was Fonzi's favorite book. I think "Mrs. C" taught him how to read in one episode of HAPPY DAYS and it was the first real book he ever read after progressing from "See Spot Run". But then again... I might be confusing a TV show with my own experience because I think Fonzi liked the "back to the wall" thing too. Perhaps I read it AFTER seeing the HAPPY DAYS episode? The silly things that stick in our minds, refusing to be tossed into the incinerator, at times hiding and at other times kicking and screaming, shouting "YOU NEED ME!!!" But I haven't the room for all of you. I can hear them now..."Alright, scoot over. Make room for the new guy." No wonder my memories get all jumbled up.

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I like both names. What is the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool? Do toads really sit on them??? Has anyone ever kissed a toad or a mushroom? Now I'm being redundant whilst eating on my lunch hour... I enjoy finishing my sentences in this fashion... It's like it's not really finished...!

Ellipsis

The ellipsis was never used more effectively than in Federick Brown's famous seventeen word short story which goes like this:
"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room, there was a knock on the door....."

Somebody else (Charels Grant or Forry Ackerman perhaps) outdid him by one letter when they wrote:
"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room, there was a lock on the door....."

Then there was Grant or Ackerman (I think) writing a one letter story entitled something like "Galactic Report Card Rating Earth's Third Quarter Performance" which was, of course, "F".

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