Bouyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav

Title

en_US Bouyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Bernard Shaw

Creator

en_US Shaw, Bernard See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 1950

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US Farfetched Fables forms the center of three works brought together here. It was first published in 1948. It begins with a long political and ideological preface (63-99). Six fables follow. The first is a discussion of nuclear war. A young woman gives an aggressive and entrepreneurial young man an idea in the midst of discussion and then deserts him because he wants to profit from it, even though it may destroy the human race. The second fable features political and military British leaders talking about poison gas and their respective mistakes in dealing with it. In the third, futuristic categorizers of people encounter a nincompoop who thinks he's a genius and a genius who thinks that he is a nincompoop (43). A scientist in the fourth dictates a chapter on living on air and water. The fifth is a futuristic discussion on how to generate the perfect human being, including how to release him from the body. The last is an advanced class discussion on what causes a new thought. Might a new thought be a visitation from dead spirits?

Identifier

en_US 5182 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80753

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Constable and Company

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR5363 .A17 1950a See all items with this value

en_US Bernard Shaw See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole