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...exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
...this quibbling, Mr. Wells' latest book is undoubtedly the best that he has produced in many years. It is a resume of the most dire forecasts and the brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting book, worthy...
...Little, Brown & Co. had been persuaded to pool resources, experiment with a one-column advt. every other week. Price: $1,800. Each publishing house will advertise one book in each insertion. First four books, already solid successes, to be advertised in the March 25 issue: The Bulpington of Blup (Macmillan), The Kennel Murder Case (Scribner), Mutiny on the Bounty (Little, Brown), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Houghton Mifflin). Each title will have to sell 2,000 copies (profit: 25? per volume) to make the advertisement repay its publisher...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew...
...Wells' latest novel were a bit greater, the word "Blup" would doubtless join the Sargasso Sea of English Slang, and if Mr. Wells were not quite so competent in his own regular way, "Blup" would no doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that...