Fethry and,Duckburg and reason in fantasy.

[Dim I Nticoudis]

  The original Martina script of "The Blot's Double Mustery" said that the 
Blot's plan was to have Mickey murder O'Hara?Then why wasn't O'Hara in his 
bed while Mickey stamped it with the knife?The greek translation says that 
an unknown informer tipped off O'Hara who hided nearby to watch who was 
going to make the attempt.The informer is presumed to be the Blot.What is 
the italian version?
  Armando said that some early Fethry stories were little mastrerpieces.I 
persume he means stories like the enjoyable "The Health Nut"(S 64008) by 
Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard.Yes this stories presented Fethry as a character 
who was trying to find an alternative way of living based on the books he 
was reading.The contast of his ideas with Donald's made this stories 
interesting.There is even one,whose name I do not know,who places 
"poor"hunter and fisherman Donald against the fanatic,ecologist Fethry 
determined not to let his cousin enjoy his vacation.This story's point of 
view against ecology made it funny.But any interest of the character was 
lost when the later creators presented him as a common idiot.
  The comparison of Super Scrooge to Paperinika doesn't seem to 
fit.Paperinika is a motivated character while Scrooge's super-powers added 
nothing to his personalitie and are forgetable.
  As for Duckburg being in U.S.A we didn't need Rosa's stories to be 
informed of it.My introduction to Donald before I learned how to read was 
Donald's World War II cartoons with him serving in the U.S.A army.So the 
idea that he and most of the characters he was associated with were 
Americans wasn't introduced to me by Rosa.I just thought the Ducks lived in 
California(after reading Barks "In Old California") and not in Calisota.
  I do not get what is the point of telling that it is all a fable or a 
fairy-tale.I am used to searching the historical truth behind fables and 
fairy-tales by either searching for their origins,the concepts they carry on 
or their connection to true historical facts.After searching all the 
geneological trees and timelines of greek mythologie it gets to be a 
habit.The only think you have to do to understand a fable is to understand 
its particular logic.
  And as fore some particular stories mentioned they have their own sence of 
logic."The Secret of Atlantis" explains how the Atlantean civilasation 
survived and how its people evolved into a new species.It is not more 
irrational than Plato's tale of the Atlanteans battling the Atheneans 
c10.000 BC.Though the story is not very original since it reminds me of 
Marvels'version of Atlantis in the stories of the character Namor,the 
Sub-Mariner(1939).
  Trala-La is just another isolated society circled by mountains.Not much to 
disbelief in.And it is more realistic that H.G.Wells' "The Country of the 
Blind" which deals with another society of this type that survived for 
centuries despite the blidness of its citizens.And Mr.Rosa gave Trala-La a 
past explaining it is the old Xanadu(though my version of Britanica says the 
later is in Mongolia).
  Even Magica DeSpell's version of magic is based in the old belief that man 
can learn how to manipulate the forces of nature.More logical than 
cooperation with divine beings.
  The stories that are mentioned have their logical explanations thanks to 
the work of their creators.But a character surviving the centuries without 
any explaination of his longevity such as Snow White and her step-mother in 
Duck stories has to accept critic.And there isn't a story in which anything 
could happen.There aren't unlimited possibilities.Every fantasy has its 
rules which define her.And any fantasy world that anybody could imagine is 
always based on our own world and its rules.

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