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Title
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Bouyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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By Bernard Shaw
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Creator
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Shaw, Bernard
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:29:15Z
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2002-11
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1950
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:29:15Z
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Date Issued
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1950
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Abstract
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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?
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Identifier
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5182 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Constable and Company
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London
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Subject
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PR5363 .A17 1950a
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Bernard Shaw
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole