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<DIV><FONT size=2>>>Was there a certain reason for Barks to write this
poem? Was it intended<BR>>>for a publication or as gift for fans, maybe
even with this mailing list<BR>>>in mind? As far as I remember, it was
"first published" on this mailing<BR>>>list (in/around March
1999?).<BR>>>Has the poem been published in print? If so, which
version/transcription<BR>>>was used as source?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Barks' poem was published in issue 331 of "Picsou
Magazine" (Août 1999).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>It was the same version as the one you posted on February
9.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>It was printed in English (!) with a translation, and the
title was "Ode to the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Disney Ducks".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>A short paragraph introduced it:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>"This little poetic ode was written by Carl Barks a few months
ago to thank</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>the many readers who sent a little note for his birthday, on
March 27, 1999.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Since there were quite a lot of you who participated, it
is only natural that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>we show you his luminescent response, so that it may
</FONT><FONT size=2>shine a happy glow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>on your vacations!"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>>>Wasn't there one in the early '60's where Gyro
invented a <BR>>>machine that could create what we now know as virtual
reality...and Donald <BR>>>used it to show how fascinating a world just
like their own, except that <BR>>>everything (except the ducks) was ten,
then a hundred, then a thousand times <BR>>>larger, could be. I'm almost
positive they saw some giant (comparatively) <BR>>>frogs during that
story...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>That's WDC&S 199, April 1957 ("Donald's Big Imagination",
CBL in color Album 32--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>among my favorite albums & stories). It very well could
have been, indeed, but no,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>there weren't any frogs. Donald and the nephews "only"
met:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> - grasshoppers, flies, a cow, a hen
</FONT><FONT size=2>and her chicks, and a mouse,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> on Jupiter ("eleven times
enlarged")</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> - gnats, a grasshopper,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> on Phonus Artichokus, "which is
about 2300 times bigger than the Earth"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> - a grasshopper and chicken pox
germs</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> on Betelgeuse</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Olivier</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>PS: I hope I fixed the MIME setting so the
message won't be crammed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> with lines
of code. All my apologies for the inconvenience.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>And this time I did use the right and only e-mail: <A
href="mailto:mouse-ducks@wanadoo.fr">mouse-ducks@wanadoo.fr</A>
.</FONT></DIV>
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