Ward Orndoff Comments ERB-APA #26: A Reply

Really enjoyed your article. You did a fine job explaining why Tarzan drank, smoked, and hunted elephants. I agree with you 100%.

ERB-APA #26

I would like to offer one more thing for you to think about. You quoted Edgar Rice Burroughs in Chapter Nine of Return Of Tarzan saying, "In fact, Tarzan had never killed for pleasure, nor to him was there pleasure in killing."

The Return Of Tarzan

I would like to point out another quote by ERB, but this time from Chapter Ten of Tarzan Of The Apes. "He killed for food most often, but being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death."

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.