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...floor and making it work there was like doing a chemical experiment at the bottom of a swimming pool. Nevertheless the geologist got to work, enlisted the technical ingenuity of Dr. William Maurice Ewing of Lehigh University. It was necessary to waterproof the dynamite charges, steel-jacket the seismographs, rig electrical connections and a device for determining whether the recorders on the bottom were level. After making sure that everything was shipshape aboard the Atlantis, Dr. Field went ashore, left the survey in Dr. Ewing's hands...
Charmed with their drowsy man-mountain, the Lilliputians rig up a conveyor belt to feed him, entertain him with a stage show in which a peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic...
...mosques and snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will find a journey equal in length to the works of Homer, and in beauty comparable to the Bible. Perhaps in no other literature is the worship of the personified powers of nature so beautifully expressed and faithfully...
...happy Vagabond has drunk of the magic Soma today and is off to hear more about it and the "Rig Veda" from Professor Clark at 11 in Harvard...
Professor Clark, "The Rig Veda", Harvard...