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Perhaps it is as well to explain, for the benefit of newcomers, that the events caricatured in this piece of Templeism date to a somewhat remote period. The activities of the thinly disguised "British Rocket Society" in the years 1936-1939 we re very much like this; indeed, the episode herewith is based quite closely on a specific event. Many readers may be surprised to know that the 'coelostat' was eventually designed and demonstrated successfully at a BIS meeting in the Science Museum. Unfor tunately its main commercial possibility has been destroyed by the advent of LP records. You can read the labels nowadays without using any gadgets...
Future historians compiling the "Encyclopaedia Galactica" may succeed in establishing the identities of 'Mrs Robinson', 'Mr Williams', and Mr Arnold'. To save them unnecessary trouble, however, they ought to know that the character describe d as "Ego" is purely a figment of Mr Temple's imagination, possibly a synthesis of the author's better qualities.
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