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If you just glanced at To Leave on the Night of the Full Moon, you might think "oh there's Dr. Breckenridge, Miss China in, err, a maids dress? And what happened to Jim! He looks like he is five!" Yes all the characters do have a startling resemblence to the Miss China ones, and Dr. Ferble Strangelab has the same sort of crazy ideas and perverted turn of mind as Dr. Breckenridge. But there the resemblece ends. The other protagonists are Alice, a maid, who happens be an adroid and "Master" Dolittle, the grandson of our current mad scientist. The story is about "Master" Dolittle and his lovely summer afternoons with Alice and his grandad. You get to see how, well, volitile Dr. Strangelab's expiriments are when "Master" Dolittle fiddles with one of his Grandad's machines that tears the house down. Alice saves him, but at the loss of her arm. Luckily the doctor can replace it. Dr. Strangelab reveals to Alice his miraculous divice that can displace matter, so that if you travel through the mirror, you can end up halfway around the world. One day the doctor disapears, and no one knows what happened to him. The story flashes forward to years later, when Dolittle is all grown up and Alice just the same. They go into Dolittle's Grandad's lab where the find the mirror. At this point the doctor pops his head out to make conversation and you find out that he has been in the tropics with lots of bikini clad women, so everyone lives happily ever after.
Hecate Says
Yep, that about sums it up. I think this story may have been the prototype for the Miss China series, as even Dr. Ferble Strangelab (I love that name!) 's invention appears in the Miss China series - only made by Dr. Breckenridge, of course. Er. Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead...
