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Summary

When Eugene the Jeep was introduced, E.C. Segar gave him a surprisingly hard science fiction introduction for the year 1936, only a decade after the term "science fiction" was invented, and two decades before the phrase "hard science fiction" was coined.

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.

The reference to an "African 'Hooey Hound'" is very likely an early nickname for the Basenji, a dog breed from Africa that had just been introduced to America that decade and which had a distinctive howl ending in a whine: "HOOOO-eeee". 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 creature known as Eugene, allowing a "fourth-dimensional" being to live in our three-dimensional world.

It's hard to resist comparing 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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