First of all, I am extremely happy to see a new Tarzan novel make its way to the public. Second, I am very happy that Philip Jose Farmer was the lucky, and deserving guy, who got to write it. Most of us know that this has been a big dream of Phil's for many years.
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In chapter two, page seventeen, Phil tells us, "When Tarzan was ten, humans moved into the jungle." PJF-The Dark Heart Of Time. When I read this, I could not help but think of my fellow ERB-APA member Joe Ferrier's "Tryst Theory." Joe theorizes that Tarzan and Jane got together sexually much sooner than Edgar Rice Burroughs reported. Around thirteen.
What does Edgar Rice Burroughs say? The author tells two contradictory stories.
- "Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his native language. Never had he seen a human being other than himself, for the little area traversed by his tribe was watered by no great river to bring down the savage natives of the interior." ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes, chapter nine.
- "Until I was fifteen, I had never seen a human being. I was twenty before I saw a white man." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan, chapter five.
In chapter eight, of The Dark Heart Of Time, Phil Farmer informs us that at age twenty-nine Tarzan sometimes drank wine, but he did so in moderation. We know through Edgar Rice Burroughs that in chapter one of The Return Of Tarzan, at age twenty-two, the jungle lord drank absinth and smoked.
In chapter eleven, on page eighty, Phil Farmer states, "Until Tarzan was eighteen, he went naked. Kulonga kills Kala, Tarzan kills Kulonga and takes his loincloth." PJF-The Dark Heart Of Time. The events Phil described take place in chapter nine of Tarzan Of The Apes. We find Kuionga has slain Kala and Tarzan is upon his trail. As Kulounga slept that night Tarzan stills the native's bow and arrows. After awakening and finding his weapons gone, Kulonga flees to the newly erected village. At the jungle's edge, Tarzan roped Kulonga and pulled him into the trees, and thrust his father's hunting knife into the chief's son's heart.
Tarzan then took Kulonga's knife, sheath, and belt. He also took a copper anklet and put it on his own leg. He also appropriated Kulonga's feathered headdress. Edgar Rice Burroughs in no way implies Tarzan took Kulonga's loincloth. The events in Jungle Tales Of Tarzan occur immediately after Kala dies. All through these following events Edgar Rice Burroughs describes Tarzan as being naked. There were a couple references mentioned, about Tarzan's efforts and experimentation to cloth himself. In chapter six of Jungle Tales Of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs mentions for the very first time about the ape-man wearing clothes. "The day being sultry, the leopard skin had been left behind." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
A second example is found in Tarzan Of The Apes. Take note that while recovering from his kingship battle with his foster brother, Terkoz, Tarzan makes a second attempt to form a loincloth out of animal skin, but again fails. "During his convalescence, Tarzan tried to fashion a mantle from the skin of Sabor, which had lain all this time in the cabin. But he found the hide dried as stiff as a board, and as he knew naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon his cherished plan." ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.
About The Author
James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines, over a span of forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory).instead of the more excepted date May 1888.
James Michael Moody is also the author of the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, and Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022. Swordsman On Unium is going through the publishing process.
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