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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) | |||
[[Category:Images from other media]][[Category:Oni 2 influences]] | [[Category:Images from other media]][[Category:Oni 2 influences]] | ||
Revision as of 23:17, 24 November 2021
Summary
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:
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 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 "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 concept of the Daodan organism as an entity or genetic process which invades our world through the phase barrier. --Iritscen (talk) 00:17, 25 November 2021 (CET)
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