Gladstone's luck

[Kristian Pedersen]

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."

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

Indeed! :)

I know for a fact that I have not read that essay, as
I have held a CBL volume in my hands, but I would
definitely love to read it.

As I remarked to Stefan in an email I forgot to cc the
list, a similar thing happens in a 10-page Barks story
in which a question by Scrooge is answered using a
contraption by Gyro: alphabet noodles boiled in a pot
together with a dictionary. Afterwards, the noodles
are poured onto Scrooge's desk and neatly spells out
the solution to his problem. Of course this is in no
way due to luck but to the genius of our favourite
inventor! Can somebody identify the story?           

I was also intrigued by Cord's angle on the case.
(Energy and entropy). Continuing that line of thought
I suppose Gladstone would be the ultimate code breaker
- he would be able to break any security system merely
by guessing the secret key. Good thing that he is not
a computer hacker...

Kristian







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