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Thread #91837   Message #1749622
Posted By: Helen
29-May-06 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: GBS-Urban legend? Closed for remodelling
Subject: RE: BS: GBS-Urban legend? Closed for remodelling
Sorry, "house"/"hotel" - a child of the 50's couldn't be blamed for getting them mixed up, could I? I guess my mind has been Elvised.

I've sent hubby the link page.

For me, the alarm bells rang when there were only a measly few mentions on Google, and when all of them have almost the same wording then you know you are looking at the same information repeated, not re-written, and probably just repeated parrot-fashion.

Thanks everyone.

The play is available for free online download if anyone wants to read it - google it to find out where, or I'll post the link after I get home from work. Thanks, alanabit, for making me want to read it. Funnily enough, I just started reading Nevil Shute's What Happened to the Corbett's which is a "what-if" novel written just prior to WWII about a family and how they cope with blitz bombings, and the real consequences such as loss of power, and increase of disease. (Used by the volunteers in the real bombings which occurred as a sort of manual.) Not the same perspective as GBS, but vaguely/sort of a similar theme from another angle - without the scathing social commentary.

Helen