# The jungle scene *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Mar 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Craig.Christensen *04 Mar 1999, 09:20* John Bishop said: > I think all or most of the little asides are a reference > to something; the airplane is a clue which I can't decipher, I always felt that this scene is a tribute to the genre of pulp adventure, rather than a specific reference to a historical event. The plane, I thought was a device to show that the characters have been moved both in space, as in the desert garden, and now in time, too. A prop plane is jarringly incongruous in the glassed-in dome of the Gardens and for me invoked the Tarzan movies of the 50's and King Solomon's Mines. Later, when I read The Last Thrilling Wonder Story and The Island of Doctor Death, I was reminded of the jungle scene. All three are, at least in part, an homage to a genre. Craig ---