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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: A Feast Unknown
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Is/was there a Farmer book devoted solely to a modernized Tarzan? Or was
there such a book and it was incorporated into or rewritten to become
part of A FEAST UNKNOWN? I have a vague recollection of reading a
library copy of a book about a mad scientist recreating a Tarzan-like
person by putting a male baby into an environment where he was raised by 
apes and had no contact with civilization until adult. All I can recall
about the book was that the mad scientist lived on a pinnacle in the
middle of a lake, and had the capability to spy on/watch the
proto-Tarzan and his interaction with the native tribes (I think
they all were imprisoned in the area somehow, maybe by surrounding
impassable cliffs). The only other thing I recall was the scientist
getting furious when the Tarzan-like boy engaged in sexual
experimentation with the young native girls, actions which the scientist
felt were "unbecoming" to the image he was trying to inculcate... :-)

Will