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Mousetrap Model of an Atomic Chain Reaction This image from the original dust jacket for Where Do You Stop? illustrates the array of mousetraps on a ping-pong table used to demonstrate a chain reaction.
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is comforting, when one feels a bit “lost,” to be able to put one’s feet
up, close one’s eyes, and look back, as it were, along the road that one
followed from wherever one once was to wherever one may be now, to “retrace
one's steps,” and find, along that roadside, familiar milestones. It is
certainly comforting for me; for if I am feeling a bit “lost,” when I begin
such a backward ramble, I am often lost during it as well, wandering on
someone else’s road, or backing out of a cul-de-sac, and it is always a
great relief to come upon one of these milestones, or, if you prefer, landmarks.
— Peter Leroy, “My
Mother Takes a Tumble”
have
in mind two sorts of cross reference
— one concerned with words and the other with things.
— Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia
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A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far) is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, and businesses portrayed in it are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. Portions of A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far) were first published by Voyager, Inc., as part of The Complete Peter Leroy (so far). The illustration at the top of the page is an adaptation of an illustration by Stewart Rouse that first appeared on the cover of the August 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The boy at the controls of the aerocycle doesn’t particularly resemble Peter Leroy—except, perhaps, for the smile. |
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