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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-05-11 09:12 am

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pène du Bois



How did Professor William Waterman Sherman, late of San Francisco, end up floating in the North Atlantic on a raft composed of the wreckage of a flotilla of balloons?

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pène du Bois
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[personal profile] bolindbergh 2025-05-12 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
If you want cheerfully absurd, there's always Erich Kästner's The 35th of May.
Edited 2025-05-12 15:35 (UTC)