WOODY! WOODY!! WOODY!!!

Me, too lazy to write and you too lazy to look for yourselves. Here a selection of interviews and participations of the great Woodster during different periods of his long brilliant carrier.

1969 with the great Dick Cavett:

With a very young Candice Bergen in the sketch he mentioned before:

Woody interviews the eternal and bright Reverend Billy Graham. Hey! They are even talking religion!:

A much more recent interview and a more serious Woody:

Smile and think!

AYN RAND

Ayn Rand (Saint Petersburg, 1905 - New York, 1982) I've known her for less then ten hours but already embracing her major ideas. Call it love at first thought if you want but this woman has entered in that more or less (last ten years?) gallery of personal heroes of Guelyland (Randi, Carlin, Dawkins, Buñuel, among them). It's easy to understand her if you listen to her reasons an not so if you don't.

So here I will leave you two talk shows where she did participate late in her brilliant life.

RICHARD DAWKINS TALKING ABOUT THE GOD DELUSSION

The great Richard Dawkins explaining what still too many people finds so "difficult" to understand and sadly many after this clean and using , his favorite adjective, "elegant" clarification they still won't.

THE LOST PYRAMIDS OF CARAL

Egypt, mesopotamia, India, China, Perú and Central America are the six craddles of civilization in the world. Almost 5,000 years old this peruvian city answer us one of the greatest mysteries in archeology: the origins of cities and civilization. But there is a hidden message from the past that only humble science can reveal. And it seems we got it.

Caral, in Perú

GUELYLAND SONG #6: DEAR GOD by XTC

Not originally part of the XTC's Skylarking (1986) album it was included in the 1987 re-issue of the same. Sincere and controversial.

Dear God,
Hope you got the letter,
And I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet,
'Cause they don't get enough to eat
From God,
I can't believe in you.
Dear God,
sorry to disturb you,
but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street,
'Cause they can't make opinions meet,
About God,
I can't believe in you.
Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!
Dear God,
Don't know if you noticed,
But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true.
Well I know it ain't and so do you,
Dear God,
I can't believe in,
I don't believe in,
I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No Devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
Is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there you'll perceive,
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe in...
It's you,
Dear God.

MY HERO, JAMES RANDI

I hope this guy will live long and prosper, because he makes and amazing job. The former magician James Randi and now worldwide debunker of charlatans, liars and preachers . Since many years ago his fundation is ready to pay a million dollars to anybody that can proof something supernatural. No one has got the money yet.

In the following video he unmask the once famous israeli psychic Uri Geller and the christian healer Popoff (and yes,that's Ricardo Montalbán at Geller's right).

And here The Amazing Randi doing his thing again (at this time he only offered 10,000 dollars)

I hate those damned healers (really sinister guys ,if you ask me) playing and getting money with the hopes of faithfull people be careful because Randi is around!

And finally about horoscopes

I strongly recomend you these two James Randi books (I read them more then once and check them now and then) they are not just a good lecture but a couple of eye openers in case one is in need of that, or just in doubt. Funny how Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke (each one introduce one book), two very rational fellows and probably the most famous science fiction writters have Randi in very good opinion and thank him for his work (in case my word is not good enough).

EL BUEN RIBEYRO (Y MUCHOS COMENTARIOS SOBRE LA EXISTENCIA DE DIOS QUE NO TIENEN NADA QUE VER CON EL ASUNTO PERO QUE CRÉO QUE ESTÁN BIEN)

Acaso el escritor más querido y de los más leidos en el Perú. No que no hayan varios, pero Julio Ramón Ribeyro (Lima, 1929-1994) a diferencia de otros no menos célebres o modernos y contemporaneos, no nos impone ningún esnobismo intelectual, no nos impresiona con docenas de traducciones en docenas de idiomas, ni nos mira desde la altura de su graciosa alcurnia. Ribeyro, flaco y fumador se hizo nuestro amigo en el colegio con sus cuentos con niños, durante nuestra adolescencia con sus cuentos más juveniles y aventureros, y ya adultos y hasta ya viejos con los correspondientes a las diversas edades del hombre. Este maestro de la narrativa corta nunca deja de sorprendernos con su sencilla elegancia, con su acequible sabiduría, con su refinada humildad.

Una de las ventajas de ser peruano es el haberlo tenido presente desde chico y haber podido acceder a su obra, entorno y presencia.

Aunque sea un autor muy popular en el Perú, es a nivel internacional mas bien un escritor de culto. Editado, sin embargo en España, Mexico, Estados Unidos , Italia, Alemania y Francia. se ha dicho que no pudo subirse al camión carnavalero del famoso "Boom Literario Latinoamericano" detonado por la editorial Seix Barral en los años sesenta (Garcia Marquez, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes , Donoso, Onetti, Paz y un largo e ilustre etcetera) por ser su fuerte el cuento, cuando Carlos Barral prefería editar sobretodo novelas. Me limito en esta ocasión a mencionar su culto. Espero hacer más entradas sobre él. Si eres peruano seguro que lo conoces y ya lo quieres. Sinó y lo desconoces déjame el gusto de presentártelo.

Les dejo un video en el que si bien el entrevistador es un poco burro , tenemos a Ribeyro hablando para la televisión (en YouTube existe una versión no condensada en cuatro partes, muy buena también).

Murió , dias o semanas despues esta entrevista.

TEST

1. Descubre que un tipo con muy mal humor llamado Herodes piensa asesinar a todos los niños menores de dos años de su país. ¿Qué hace?
a) Avisa a sus conciudadanos para que tomen medidas.
b) Alerta sólo a sus vecinos.
c) Se larga a Egipto sin avisar a nadie.

2. Necesita imperiosamente enviar un mensaje a la humanidad. ¿Qué vía de comunicación elige?
a) Como Dios Todopoderoso que es, se aparece a toda la humanidad simultáneamente.
b) Como Dios Todopoderoso que es, intercepta la señal de la televisión en horario de máxima audiencia.
c) Como Dios Todopoderoso que es, se aparece a unos jóvenes pastores analfabetos a los que nadie va a creer.

3. Si se planteara tener un hijo…
a) Lo tiene con su/una mujer.
b) Lo adopta.
c) Encarga a una paloma que fecunde a una virgen.

4. Encarga a un tipo que rescate a su pueblo de un secular cautiverio en Egipto con una travesía de 40 años por el desierto. Cuando llegan a la tierra prometida…
a) Le da una paga extra.
b) Le felicita por su trabajo.
c) Le anuncia que ha decidido que se muera y que nunca pise la tierra prometida.

5. Tiene usted un hijo, personificación de la bondad y la justicia absoluta, lo envía a la tierra y, al parecer, todos le aclaman como líder de una sociedad justa e igualitaria.
a) Lo convierte en presidente de la República.
b) Lo convierte en rey.
c) Deja que lo crucifiquen.

6. Sus seguidores han fundado una religión: ¿Qué opina del resto de creencias?
a) No me considero una persona religiosa.
b) Las respeto.
c) Habría que matarlos a todos en una yihad, guerra santa o misión culturizadora, según el caso, y así se lo hago saber a mis representantes en la tierra.

ALBUM EL MARAVILLOSO MUNDO DE LOS ANIMALES

El año debe haber sido 1972. O sea yo con seis o siete de edad y en esa cajota de madera, vidrio y magia que fue nuestra tele Philips en blanco y negro (aunque fue más como tenue celeste y negro) aparece el desaparecido Jorge Montoro sentado en una banca y prometiéndole a una chiquita que "tu perrito chihuahua y todos los animalitos de mundo" aparecerían en esta nueva colección de cromos de Editorial Navarrete.

Habrá que decir que la novedad para mi fue que las figuritas no eran ilustraciones sinó fotografías. Lo que nos llevó a mi y a ciertos compañeros de escuela a la discución de una paradoja no indigna de niños de nuestra edad y de por esas épocas: Cómo se tomaron las fotos de los dinosaurios?? Si en esa época no habían cámaras fotográficas!!

Muchos años despues, con una sonrisa, encontraría en el Museo Británico a los inanimados modelos de las fotos.

En la colección de 360 figuritas no aparecía el jaguar por ningún lado, pero habían tantos animales nuevos para mi y tan bonitos e interesantes que la disfruté por igual. Conocí al írbis o pantera de las nieves y al tigre blanco, entre muchos otros.

Soñé con tener ese cachorro de león y me fascinaba con la foto de una misteriosa niña que parecía, en la foto, tener patas de venado en lugar de pies.

Las fotos coloridas y reales a veces repetían algún animal (el leopardo y el león aparecían tres veces, por ejemplo) lo que se me antojaba un bienvenido lujo.

Alguna travesura habríamos cometido porque mi mamá nos rompió el álbum (mi hermana tenía el suyo) y en la noche me fuí a la basura en arriesgada misión a rescatar a los posibles sobrevivientes de la tragedia. La leona sobrevivió, la morsa no.

Tan inocente era que durante varios años en la carta que uno a Papa Noel le solía escribir para Navidad le pedía este álbum completo y lleno. Luego me olvidaba que no llegaba pero al año siguiente volvía a pedirlo con especificaciones más detalladas para que esta vez si me lo traiga. Quizá esta inconsistencia haya sido el primer paso al profundo escepticismo que hoy gobierna mi vida en cuestiones religiosas, porque cuando me enteré que Papa Noel no existía y se lo pedí también al "Niño Dios" este tampoco me lo pudo conseguir.

Agregaré que en todo el álbum no sale el prometido perrito chihuahua. Me acuerdo porque de chico lo busqué. Mi escepticismo por lo que uno ve en la tele y la publicidad nació asi a tierna edad.

Gracias a la realidad de internet, me hice no hace mucho de una copia completa de este, para mí, mítico álbum que hoy tengo a la vista y que, el niño que nunca dejamos de ser, puede volver a contemplar con agradecida fascinacion. Esta vez, para siempre.

LOS DIEZ PEORES PASAJES BÍBLICOS : THE TEN WORST VERSES IN THE BIBLE

En ingles y en español.

These are apparently the ten worst verses in the bible:

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12)

"Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses." (1 Samuel 15:3)

"You shall not let a sorceress live." (Exodus 22:18)

"Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock." (Psalm 137:9)

"When the men would not listen to his host, the husband seized his concubine and thrust her outside to them. They had relations with her and abused her all night until the following dawn, when they let her go. Then at daybreak the woman came and collapsed at the entrance of the house in which her husband was a guest, where she lay until the morning. When her husband rose that day and opened the door of the house to start out again on his journey, there lay the woman, his concubine, at the entrance of the house with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, 'Come, let us go'; but there was no answer. So the man placed her on an ass and started out again for home." (Judges 19:25-28)

"And the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." (Romans 1:27)

"Jephthah made a vow to the Lord. 'If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,' he said, 'whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the Lord. I shall offer him up as a holocaust.' ... When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came forth, playing the tambourines and dancing. She was an only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her. When he saw her, he rent his garments and said, 'Alas, daughter, you have struck me down and brought calamity upon me. For I have made a vow to the Lord and I cannot retract'." (Judges 11:30-1, 34-5)

"Then God said: 'Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you'."(Genesis 22:2)

"Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)

"Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse." (1 Peter 2:18)

Y aquí la version en español. Ustedes chequeen sus propias biblias:

Mujeres no pueden enseñar en la iglesia (1 Tim. 2:12).

Samuel manda a destruir completamente a los amalecitas (1 Sam. 15:3).

El mandamiento de Moisés que no se le deje vivir a una hechicera (Ex. 22:18).

El final de Salmo 137 en donde de habla de estrellar los niños del enemigo contra las rocas.

El violación y asesinato de una concubina (Jueces 19:25-28).

La condenación de homosexualidad (Romanos 1:27).

La promesa de Jefté que le llevó a matar a su hija (Jueces 11).

El comando de sacrificar a Isaac (Génesis 22:2).

La instrucción a esposas a someterse a sus esposos (Efesios 5:22).

La instrucción a esclavos a someterse a sus amos (1 Pedro 2:18).

THE MAN FROM EARTH

I used to think that there was one very good movie where almost everything happens in one room. I'm talking about that masterpiece called 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet,1957).

Now, I think there are two. It's call The Man From Earth or, actually, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth.

A science fiction drama without special effects and a very low budget. But with a very good script (what is, in my opinion, the most important element in a movie). A man is moving without so much noise but kind of fast, and a party of friends come to say bye and end up staying for the night. They start asking many questions about his rush when finally he decides to tell them the story of his life. His very long life. His very, very long life. Because he looks 35 and no way 14,000 years old. Is he joking? Crazy? What, telling the true? To our luck these friends are no ordinary blocks. They are academics in different areas. Our protagonist himself is a proffesor. So they have very precise questions but he has at least a couple of amazing revelations to answer with. It's kind of a philosophical movie without flashbacks but with plenty of big questions and even more interesting answers.

By the way the writter was a veteran not only from the original Star Trek but from The Twilight Zone as well.

I recomend this little movie very much. And, since i haven't got the DVD yet (which is always better cos i read has two commentaries and other extras) and you MUST see it I'll leave you the files from were to get it even with spanish subtitles. Tell me later how it went!

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CITAS BIBLICAS

Tengo mis dudas sobre, entre muchos otros, estos textos bíblicos. Son algunas de las muchas razones por las cuales no me permito creer en la biblia y por ende en el cristianismo y sus tradiciones (que se me quitaron las ganas) son tan tenebrosos que ni provoca burlarse ya. O es que sólo debemos coger lo que nos conviene? Despues se preguntan porque uno es "tan" ateo!

Las mujeres escuchen en silencio las instrucciones con entera sumision. Pues no permito a la mujer enseñar ni tomar autoridad sobre el marido; mas estese callada. Ya que Adan fue formado el primero, y despues Eva.
Y ademas Adan no fue engañado, mas la mujer, engañada, fue causa de la prevaricacion (de la caida en el pecado). Verdad es que se salvara por medio de los hijos, si persevera en la fe y el la caridad en santa y arreglada vida.

1 Timoteo 2:11-15

Asi es que aquel siervo [esclavo] que, habiendo conocido la voluntad de su amo, no abstante, ni puso en orden las cosas, ni se porto conforme queria su señor, recibira muchos azotes.

Lucas 12:47

Mas quiero que sepais que Cristo es la cabeza de todo hombre, como el hombre es cabeza de la mujer, y Dios lo es de Cristo. Por donde si una mujer no se cubre con un velo la cabeza, que se la rape. Y si es cosa fea a una mujer el cortarse el pelo o raparse, cubra su cabeza. Lo cierto es que no debe el varon cubrir su cabeza, pues el es la imagen y gloria de Dios; mas la mujer es la gloria del varon. Que no fue el hombre formado de la mujer; si no la mujer del hombre; como ni tampoco fue el hombre criado para hembra, sino la hembra para el hombre.

1 Corintios 11:3-9

El Señor hablo a Moises diciendo: "Toma primero venganza de lo que han hecho a los hijos de Israel los madianitas ..." Moises hablo asi al pueblo, "Armese alguna gente de entre vosotros para salir a dar batalla, y ejecutar la venganza que el Señor quiere tomar de los madianitas. Escojanse mil hombres de cada tribu de Israel para salir a campaña." ... Y fueron elejidos mil de cada tribu , esto es , prontos para combatir...
Los envio Moises con Finees, hijo del Sacerdote Eliazar; entregandole al mismo tiempo los instrumentos sagrados y las trompetas para dar la señal. Trabada la batalla con los medianitas, como los hubiese vencido, mataron a todos los varones... Y a sus reyes Evi y Recem y Sur y Hur y Rebe, cinco principes de la nacion: pasando tambien a cuchillo a Balaam, hijo de Beor. Y se apoderaron de sus mujeres y niños y de todo los ganados y de todos sus bienes; saquearon cuanto pudieron haber a las manos. Ciudades, aldeas y campamentos, todo lo devoro el fuego. Y tomando los despojos y todas las cosas que pillaron tanto de hombre como de bestia, Los condujieron a Moises y al Sacerdote Eliazar y a toda la multitud de los hijos de Israel...
Y enojado Moises contra los jefes del ejercito y los jefes de mil de cien que venian de la guerra.
Dijo "Como habeis dejado con vida a las mujeres? " Matad, pues, todos los varones que hubiere, aun a los niños. Y degollad a las mujeres que hayan conocido varon, Reservaos solamente a las niñas y a todas las doncellas.

Numeros 31:1-18

RELIGIOUS HUMOR

Ideas can be serious and funny at the same time. Hey! They can even made us think!

GEORGE CARLIN ON RELIGION. If you are a believer don't read this cos you might be offended. Actually, you should read it because ideas must be tested.

Good old George always was honest with himself and with us. His ideas on religion might sound irreverent for the believers but if you think deeper then that and with an open and funny mind you can see the true behind them. Here some droppings of his mind about this subject that always intrigue me no matter the years that pass.And don't worry cos if god exists...Ops, Georgie!At least you were frank!

I've begun worshipping the Sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the Sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to God are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate.
(From, Brain Droppings)

Here's another question I've been pondering -- what is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people belive in angels. Are you fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their mind? You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and absorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of street drugs will get you some fucking angels, my friend!
What about Goblins, huh? Doesn't anybody belive in Goblins? You never hear about this. Except on Halloween and then it's all negative shit. And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.
(From, You Are All Diseased)

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.
(George Carlin, quoted from Reuters / Variety "Notable Quotes" for April 25, 2001)

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
(From, Brain Droppings)


The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god -- that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them -- and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.

In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told.
Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!
(From,Politically Incorrect, May 29, 1997)

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. Two reasons; first of all, I think he's a good actor. Okay. To me, that counts. Second; he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. Doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with. For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cock-sucker out with one visit.
I noticed that of all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers that I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50 percent rate. Half the time I get what I want. Half the time I don't. Same as God 50-50. Same as the four leaf clover, the horse shoe, the rabbit's foot, and the wishing well. Same as the mojo man. Same as the voodoo lady who tells your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same; 50-50. So just pick your superstitions, sit back, make a wish and enjoy yourself.
And for those of you that look to the Bible for it's literary qualities and moral lessons; I got a couple other stories I might like to recommend for you. You might enjoy The Three Little Pigs. That's a good one. It has a nice happy ending. Then there's Little Red Riding Hood. Although it does have that one X-rated part where the Big Bad Wolf actually eats the grandmother. Which I didn't care for, by the way. And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I liked best: "and all the king's horses, and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again." That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None. Not one. Never was. No God.


If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.
(From, Napalm & Silly Putty,2001)

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A BROAD IDEA OF GOD

Steven Weinberg, Nobel prize winner of physics(1979), has an interesting comment:
"Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look at him. One hears it said that 'God is the ultimate' or 'God is our better nature' or 'God is the universe.' of course, like any other word, the word 'God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that 'God is energy', then you can find God in a lump of coal."

Weinberg,S.(1993). Dreams of a Final Theory.London:Vintage.

SOBRE LOS MISTERIOS DE LA BIBLIA

Traduzco un fragmento del libro "From Eden to Exile:Unraveling Misteries of the Bible" (Del Edén al Exilio:Desentrañando los misterios de La Biblia) de Eric H. Cline.National Geographic 2007 pag.185)
"La gente necesita historias, no sólo información, para darle sentido a sus vidas. Como uno de mis amigos suele decir, los seres humanos son historias de carne y hueso. Le damos sentido a nuestras vidas y a nuestra historia con narraciones, y La Biblia es una de las más grandes historias jamás contadas. La gente lee La Biblia para encontrarse a si misma en élla, y mucha gente no sólo lee lo narrado, lo vive. No sólo ven el desarrollo de un drama en el escenario, sinó que se ven como actores del mismo. Como tal, y aunque La Biblia no pueda ser tomada siempre en sentido literal, sus palabras pueden a pesar de todo contar una cierta verdad-y pueden cambiar la vida de muchas personas durante el proceso. Y las historias de La Biblia no dicen nada de Ziusudra pero si cuentan todo sobre Noé. Así, hoy la busqueda de Noe continua y se olvida a los héroes del Diluvio de otras culturas.
Hay, sin duda otro factor más mundano envuelto. Robert Eisenman, profesor de arqueología bíblica de la Universidad del Estado de California en Long Beach, dijo una vez, "Esas historias de aventuras encandilan la imaginación del crédulo. Sin embargo existe la rémota posibilidad de que sean ciertas y eso es lo que las hace tan interesantes".