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Cyrano

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Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

Alison Dare: Little Miss Adventures in the TVCU

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  Adventure has a name.   His name is Indiana Jones.   Adventure, as it turns out, also has a goddaughter.   Her name is Alison Dare.       (Mr. Torres and Mr. Bone. Should you come upon this essay, consider it a humble request for more Alison Dare adventures.)   Alison Dare resists dating. Boys are yucky and dumb.   Alison Dare also resists dating. Her stories never offer a year, month, or date; you're lucky to run into a season. But we can come within a few years of establishing a date. Nazi Germany is still a world power (therefore we're before 1945); moreover, Nazis can walk the streets in full Nazi regalia. We're before America entered the war, if not before the war started.   Alison Dare's mother, Dr. Dare (no relation to a certain Doc Dare), has a collection of artifacts, all rare, most only in her office via government intervention. She works with spies, religious orders, and superheroes. Perh...

The Final TVCU Crew Review

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That's right.  Even though these review posts have had lots of views and have led to other posts getting more views, I feel these review posts are a failure.  The chronology posts often end up getting a lot of feedback and discussion, which are not happening with these reviews.  So this will be the final one. However, starting January 1, I'm trying something new.  I still won't have time to do fully detailed chronologies (even updates) until the book is done, but what I'm going to start doing is writing "TVCU Quickies". The Quickies will each focus on a series, sometimes ones already covered but in need of update and sometimes new subject matter, and will consist of the following: My extremely biased views on the series in question. How I feel the series fits into the TVCU or TVCM. Some of the more easily found crossover finds. Links to other relevant sites. A few pictures and videos, of course. Hopefully by April I will be doing regular chronol...