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...fragment, about 20,000 miles in diameter, shot out 200,000 miles before becoming too faint to see. The force necessary to produce this sudden acceleration was more than 1,000 times the pull of the earth's gravity, Menzel said...
When scholars got a look at a small fragment of the seventh and last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Jordan in 1947, they discovered the name of Lamech, the father of Noah. They concluded that the seventh scroll was an apocryphal Book of Lamech. There the matter stood, for the seventh scroll seemed too brittle to be unrolled...
...pages were an Aramaic version of Chapters 12 to 15 of Genesis, interwoven with stories and legends about the Patriarchs. As scholars examined the scroll further, it became clear that all of it deals with the Book of Genesis in the same order as the accepted text. The fragment mentioning Lamech that had misled the scholars was evidently part of Chapter 5 of Genesis...
...boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment of brunette poetry. Over cocktails, it turns out that her beefy husband is Tom's dentist. Tom and Louise lark off for a weekend together and get found out. In one of the more bloodcurdling scenes in recent fiction, the cuckolded dentist, drill in hand, hovers over Tom ready to extract...
Advocate readers will be pleased to find that, at least as far as the prose goes, the November issue is a bit above average. If none of the stories has a consummate finish, all of them have some very interesting facets. The most intriguing piece is a fragment from a novel by Peter Heliczer, the story of a young man with a slightly pedantic turn. Heliczer's use of lower case letters in the e e cummings fashion seems at first merely designed to prove that the author is "modern," and that there is something strange about his story...