Chris wrote:
> this may be a long shot, but i've searched google books and amazon and 
> have achieved a success rate about equal to the # of successful babylon 
> stations prior to #4. 
> 
> when i was young(this would have had to been late 80's at the earliest) 
> i read a book that was quite fanciful, about an advensute in a fantasy 
> world/realm, i'm fairly sure the main character was a young boy(as i was 
> at the time) or possibly a young man, it was similar in some fashions to 
> stories such as alice in wonderland or charlie and the chocolate 
> factory, but to be totally honest, the only significant thing from the 
> book i can recall is that there was a type of creature in the land that 
> was described as looking like a type of civil war era cannon, i can't 
> recall for sure if it had "wheels" or if the creature had a series of 
> legs that whipped around in a wheel-like fashion. i've checked for other 
> books by the authors of the 2 mentioned above, and found nothing 
> familiar, so now my last hope is here. :-) 
> 
> ...chris
> 
> 
There's a distant ringing of bells, but I haven't been able to place it yet.

For some reason, I'm associating it with a story about reverse entropy; 
it may come from that story, or it may be another one in the collection. 
I can't place that one either--I know it's called "The  
Effect" by a fairly well-known author.  The concept is that the more you 
use something, the "better" it gets.  That's really helpful, isn't it? 
("I'm looking for a song by somebody about something; it has a tune and 
and goes da-da-da-da.  Can you help?").

Blair
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