evaluating Gladstone's luck

[Stefan Diös]

Donald Ault:

>Almost 20 years ago I, too, was thinking about a similar problem and
>published an essay on Gladstone's luck in Set II Volume 3 of the black and
>white *Carl Barks Library* (1984) entitled "Luck's Labors Lost" (pages
>525-26, 640). On page 640 the following statement of mine appears:
>
>"the fragments of the map converging in the whirlpool constitute perhaps the
>most implausible bit of Barks' wizardly in Gladstone's history."


Really! And here Kristian and I each thought we found out something 
original! :-)

Well, Professor, I still cannot recall having read that particular essay, 
which I'll readily admit is a bad omission and an unforgiveable shortcoming 
in my cultural education. I was the last, or second to last, person to 
order the complete CBL from Another Rainbow before some of the sets ran out 
of print, some 10-15 years ago or whatever. I use them often as reference, 
and I read the essays with pleasure, but I haven't made an effort to make 
sure I've read them all, nor even 100% of the actual stories... it's nice 
to have something left as a surprise one day when you open a book you 
haven't seen in a while.

But this topic intrigues me. I'll take out the book at once and read that 
essay. I guess I wasn't going to sleep for a while anyway...