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I don't want to drag this Artemis discussion into extremes, so just a short
comment based on some diggings into archeological material at home.
There seems not to be very many who thinks Croesus was the man
behind the first Atemis temple. However - and this is of course exactly
what you need, Don - according to my sources there are no doubt about
Croesus contributing with at least some of the columns, based on
engravings on them telling that it's a gift from Croesus! In fact he seems
to have been contributing columns to a lot of temples in Asia Minor, just
as a modern day tycoon donates statues and all sort of prestigious
things to todays important buildings.

And it also seems that you are quite right about columns being reused
for later versions of the temple, as the Croesus engravings are present
on the second temple! You seem even correct about the ground plan
(now, who would have thought that?:-)).

The temple was plundered by Nero (in 57?) to get treasures to the City of
Rome (not because Rome was at war with the area, it seems, as it very
much was part of the empire), before it was sacked by the Goths before
the local Christians came around and destroyed it, before eventually
that Leo 1 entered the scene dismantling the whole thing. Still confused?
History IS confusing!

Bjorn Are

Dear Folks,

Don't worry. In light of the "Lydia" controversy I am NOT
foolish enough to duplicate a song exactly in one of my stories!
The story is a Fred Milton 10-pager about DD and Daisy acting in a
stage musical. I have Daisy singing:
"OOOOOOklahoma
Where the wind comes breezing o'er the sod!
Seated on a bough, we'll watch a sow
Pacing lazy circles in the clods!"
By the way, don't wait for this one from Gladstone. I actually
don't have John's approval to do it yet, but I was just itching to do
the first page in advance, so I did.

US 291: Superb work, Don. I haven't read everything yet so
you'll hear my more complete views when I've soaked it all up.
My own dialog in "A Case of Too Much Money" is almost exactly
as I originally wrote it. Why does Disney leave all the dark political
allegories (particularly that money from a Communist country was
colored red!) in this one and pick out harmless things to jettison in
"A Car-Gone Conclusion?" Why? They're Disney, that's why.
Well, okay, there were two minor changes. One Beagle Boy was
shouting the Carrollian "Oh, frabjous day!" which became "Oh,
fabulous day!" Then, on page 2 the sign in the last panel originally
had the subtext "A Place That's All It's Quacked Up To Be". Disney
blew the whistle on THEMSELVES that time. That was the Calisota
motto from the Walt Disney World Duckburg display!

WDC&S 596: William Van Horn's story in this issue is a real
cut above what he's lately been producing. Also, Romano Scarpa's
Filo Sganga story makes an appearance in it for some reason. An
English name of Jubal Cock was given in a Scarpa article c. 1989
(even though the character's stories have never appeared in English)
but here he's called J. Frostfeathers Pomp.
"Monarch of Medioka" is out swinging with one climax after
another. The most exciting part of the story is under way now. I
love this story.
And in the back of the issue, an announcement from Bruce
Hamilton appears. None other than STEVE GEPPI (you hear that one,
Don?) recently bought the newly-discovered pencil concept art for the
first Mickey cartoon, "Plane Crazy" -- all by Ub Iwerks. And it's
going to see print in WDC&S 598 as a six-page story! Nobody is going
to keep THIS Mouse fan away.

Oh, yeah. A new "preview" catalog also showed up at the shop
today. DD 291 has the Barks story "Fearsome Flowers" from WDC 21x,
illustrated on the cover by... well, Cavazzano, it looks like. (?!)
DM contains the end (thank God) of "Goofy King Arthur." The big news
for the month is USA 33, which contains "Horsing Around with
History" and "Only a Poor Old Man" (first time with airbrushed color,
folks) under a Van Horn PAINTED cover. I have to say that Barks'
1952 story will put the new one to shame, even if ("Horsing Around")
does have its moments.

That's all for today, gang.

Best, David
<9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>

DAVID:
Well, your feeble old grampaw could have been sadly mistaken all
these years, or maybe it's a matter of personal preference, but the
way I see it is this--

"Phew, you stink!"
"Whew, what a relief!"

The Danish writers writing in English I've seen invariably use "phew"
as a sigh of relief, which sounds wrong to my ear, so I generally
change it to "whew." Your mileage may vary, of course.

Now, where I _really_ draw the line is things like "Grrr!," "Bah,"
and "Wak!" Those all seem to me like Things To Say When You Can't
Think Of Anything Else To Say. Where word balloon space allows, I
try to substitute something a little more eloquent. Seems to me that
the story reads better when the character is actually saying something
as opposed to just grunting or snorting. But that's personal preference.

Not sure what you mean by scripts written in "British English." What
I've seen are scripts written in non-native English by Danes and Swedes.
Sometimes they're amazingly good with their use of American slang and
colloquialisms, but other times some misunderstood expression gives
them away (such as a reference to "the windshield factor" in cold
weather, or Scrooge telling his secretary to "keep the castle" while
he's gone -- "hold the fort" was what was meant). One Swedish writer
gives himself away every time by spelling the name of a certain town
as "Duckborg."

--Dwight

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DWIGHT:
You are absolutely right, of course... and I'm surprised that there are
any comic book readers that don't know the distinct difference between "phew"
and "whew". Perhaps they don't use such classic old expressions correctly
nowadays as they did in the comics you and I grew up on?
It's just a repitition of what you say... but, right: "phew" is
pronounced "fyew" and definitely indicates a bad smell or such. "Whew" is
pronounced... well, it's more of just a sound of air being forced through pursed
lips, sortuva "whhsshhwwww" without any sorta vowell sound.
I'm also surprised when I learn that there a funnybook readers who think
that "heh, heh, heh" (which is an underbreath chuckle to one's self with a
short-e) is pronounced the same as "hee, hee, hee" (an evil or sarcastic chortle
of moderate audibility), even though I think they know it's different from a
"ha, ha, ha" (normal laugh) and "har, har, har" (loud guffaw).
These differences are of MAJOR importance! Readers who are not fluent in
the language of comic art will never fully understand the nuances of meanings of
the dialogue and therefore of the stories.

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