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As far as I know this book will have 200 pages. Including stories:
- Lentils of Babylon
- Chiricava necklace (Mouse story)
- Paperino e la leggenda scozzese volante (Flying Scotchman)
Only these three, so they will be printed in original three-tier format.

Each story is presented by Scarpa himself. And there are some articles too.

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Lost in the Andes illustrates the huge landscape which habits the Carl Barks' stories; there is a certain feeling of vertigo in this adventure in the high mountains, and nature is imposing (the same could be said about other Barks' stories, amongst them: Land beneath the ground (1956), The Hall Mermaid Queen (1967), A Christmas for shacktown (1951) and so forth...in some situations nature in its huge side is symbolized by abysses which are opened suddenly under the ground, in some other scenes Donald knows the thrills to walk on the high mountains and some fragile bridges made of wood for crossing the summits; Lost in the Andes is full of these feelings and situations and certainly the story reveals an imposing world.

Can someone tell me what exactly the phrase "I made it square!" means?
Olaf

> There won't be two Rosa Halls. There will be MANY. They are printing > all
> his stories in chronological order. So, the next book will contain his > 14th
> story onto his... uhm... I don't know, 25th or 26th story, perhaps

But for how long do you think they are planning to print his stories?
I mean, ALL his stories, including the ones he's just brought out?
And I wonder if these books is going to be available in stores or only as a "club"?
Does Mr. Rosa himself have any information on this subject?

Another thing I've been thinking about, I just enjoyed "The Once and Future Duck", and in that story, King Arthur spots Gyro Gearlooses "suncatcher", and says something like: "I need that cup... half the kingdom to he who brings me the HOLY GRAIL!!!" (sorry about the translation, I've only read it in swedish so far...)
Well, the point is, that if the holy grail becomes fiction, and that it never existed becouse King Arthur just made it up, how can as an example
(warning, a very tiny spoiler coming up...) Donald find it in The Old Castles New Secret?

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P? Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:43:40 +0100 (CET), skrev Nat Chrenshaw
<natchrenshaw at yahoo.se>:

> Another thing I've been thinking about, I just enjoyed "The Once and
> Future Duck", and in that story, King Arthur spots Gyro Gearlooses
> "suncatcher", and says something like: "I need that cup... half the
> kingdom to he who brings me the HOLY GRAIL!!!" (sorry about the
> translation, I've only read it in swedish so far...)
> Well, the point is, that if the holy grail becomes fiction, and that it
> never existed becouse King Arthur just made it up, how can as an example
> (warning, a very tiny spoiler coming up...) Donald find it in The Old
> Castles New Secret?

The Holy Grail was the cup of Jesus, wasn't it?

I assume that Jesus had a cup to drink from even if king Arthur never went
looking for it.

(though I'd always assumed it to be... plainer.)

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Thanks, Don and Rob, for elaborating on the cars.
I am currently working with a Hall of Fame book for Egmont concentrating on Barks' car stories.
By the way, I loved your recent story, Don. However, isn't it really too much that Scrooge not only has become the world's richest man, but also that he unknowingly resides above the world's greatest knowledge reservoir (JW Guidebook) and unknowingly grows up above the world's greatest treasure?
And some ten years ago you advised me (re my story idea of the Holy Grail and St. Brendan's voyage) that Disney would never accept a story with the Holy Grail!
The only thing left is now to explain about Donald's parents.
Of course, they were imprisoned by Brutopia when on a diplomatic mission in the early 30s and reported missing, expectantly dead. Donald's mother wanted to get away from Duckburg for some time and placed Donald and his twin sister with Grandma.
Then a report comes out that they might be alive and still in concentrating camps in the Brutopian inland.
It takes the combined effort of Donald with the help of Gladstone's luck, Scrooge's wealth, Gyro's inventions, the nephews' knowledge, and even the enlisted help of the Beagle Boys who are on a mission to free their brothers in the same country, to set Donald's parents free. What a story it would be!
Actually, this would be the ultimate story. Along with the story for rescuing the nephews' parents from something similar. Maybe they went searching for Donald's parents some years before and were imprisoned too?
Geir Hasnes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geir Hasnes" <g-hasne at online.no>
To: "Don Rosa" <donrosa at iglou.com>; <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:13 PM
Subject: Cars questions

> The only thing left is now to explain about Donald's parents.

I never really understood why that needs an explanation at all, I mean, Donald
is an adult. Adults usually don't have constant contact with their parents, especially
if they live somewhere distant.
We don't see Gyro's parents, Daisy's parents, Gladstone's parents, Mickey's parents,
Goofy's parents, Magica's parents, etc. Are we to assume that all these people are orphans?
If this really is the offical view, it seems a lot worse than any other assumptions.
If the editors had thought the same way when Barks introduced Scrooge, or Grandma Duck,
we would never have seen them.
There is simply nothing to explain, we simply haven't seen Donalds parents in a present
day story because there has been no need to show them yet. If the need for a story
with them rises, simply have them meet up with the main characters, mention something
about how we should meet more often and mention that they Do live far away.
But still....

> Of course, they were imprisoned by Brutopia when on a diplomatic mission in the early 30s
> and reported missing, expectantly dead. Donald's mother wanted to get away from Duckburg
> for some time and placed Donald and his twin sister with Grandma.
>
> Then a report comes out that they might be alive and still in concentrating camps in the Brutopian inland.
>
> It takes the combined effort of Donald with the help of Gladstone's luck, Scrooge's wealth, Gyro's inventions,
> the nephews' knowledge, and even the enlisted help of the Beagle Boys who are on a mission to free
> their brothers in the same country, to set Donald's parents free. What a story it would be!

....I really like this story idea! It's dramatic, has action and a chance to team up these characters in
a organised rescue mission. I wonder if Egmont would allow concentration camps though, maybe just
make it a prison. If Don or someone else doesn't use this idea, or come up with another idea
for this "reunion", could I use it? I have plans to start writing duckstories in the future, if time allows
it. Probably won't happen for a long while though, and they might not be accepted either, but I've
got so many ideas so it would be nice to try sometime. (Probably shouldn't choose this kind of story
for a debut though, might be a bit too ambious.)

- Martin S. Thoresen

> The Holy Grail was the cup of Jesus, wasn't it?
>
> I assume that Jesus had a cup to drink from even if king Arthur never went
> looking for it.

Was it the one from the Indiana Jones movie? The one wich give the Unlimted
youth to enny one whou dirnk from it?

Yours
Maciek