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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
When Eugene the Jeep was introduced, E.C. Segar gave him a surprisingly hard-SF introduction for 1936, only | When Eugene the Jeep was introduced, E.C. Segar gave him a surprisingly hard-SF introduction for the year 1936, only a decade after the term "science fiction" was invented. | ||
Here is a transcript of the professor's explanation of the Jeep: | |||
{{Quote|A Jeep is an animal living in a three dimensional world… in this case, our world; but really belonging to a fourth-dimensional world…. Here's what happened… a number of Jeep life-cells were somehow forced through the dimensional barrier into our world. They combined at a favorable time with free life cells of the African "Hooey Hound". The electrical vibrations of the Hooey Hound cell and the foreign cell were the same – they were kindred cells… in fact, all things are to some extent '''relative''' – whether they be of this or some other world…. Now you see — the extremely favorable conditions of germination in Africa caused a fusion of these life-cells – so the uniting of kindred cells caused a transmutation…. The result – a mysterious strange animal.|Prof. Brainstine}} | |||
The reference to an African "Hooey Hound" is very likely an early nickname for the [[wp:Basenji|Basenji]], a dog breed that had just been introduced to America that decade and which had a distinctive howl ending in a whine which sounds like "[https://youtu.be/lvHCtSsqOnM?t=35 hoooo-''EE'']". The Basenji's curled tail and propensity for standing on its hind legs can be seen in Eugene the Jeep. "Free life cells" can be interpreted as a delicate reference to reproductive cells, e.g. eggs, which were "at a favorable time" (estrus) for fertilization. The result was that a Basenji gave birth to the hybrid being known as Eugene, allowing a "fourth-dimensional" being to live in our three-dimensional world. Reading the professor's words closely, Eugene may in fact be, not a hybrid, but the ''actual animal'' which normally resides on the other side of this dimensional barrier, which simply needed a "kindred" host (the closest to its kind on our side) to "transmute" an embryo into its usual form, but living in our world. | |||
It's difficult not to relate this to my [[Oni2:Slaves of War/Overview|concept of the Daodan organism]] as an entity or genetic process which invades our world through the phase barrier. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] ([[User talk:Iritscen|talk]]) 00:17, 25 November 2021 (CET) | |||
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