Any idea that begins, “I’ll bet they know the answer in Opar!” is a bad idea. Still, it can’t be worse than the last four or five Sunday story arcs…
Let’s imagine that there was a lost outpost of Plato’s mythical Atlantis in Africa. Considering Europeans’ ignorance of Africa for centuries a lot of things are possible. (Although we can rule out races of men 10 inches tall, gorillas who speak English, and some of the other things ERB invented.) With Africa no longer being the ‘unknown’ continent in the eyes of Europeans what would Opar be today? Probably a tourist trap. The “Jewels of Opar” would be available for sale all over the city – with ‘made in China’ stamped on them.
Any idea that begins, “I’ll bet they know the answer in Opar!” is a bad idea. Still, it can’t be worse than the last four or five Sunday story arcs…
Let’s imagine that there was a lost outpost of Plato’s mythical Atlantis in Africa. Considering Europeans’ ignorance of Africa for centuries a lot of things are possible. (Although we can rule out races of men 10 inches tall, gorillas who speak English, and some of the other things ERB invented.) With Africa no longer being the ‘unknown’ continent in the eyes of Europeans what would Opar be today? Probably a tourist trap. The “Jewels of Opar” would be available for sale all over the city – with ‘made in China’ stamped on them.