In 1931, little Forry Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs about something his teacher had said in class re the Tarzan novels.[1] Burroughs responded with the following:
I've always had a fondness in my heart for Burroughs the writer, but now it has flared into full fledged unabashed manlove.[2]
Anyhoo, read the originals at Letters Of Note website.[3]
(tip o'the editor's eyeshade to Richard Dean Starr for originally alerting us to this)
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[1] I gotta say I agree w/teacher on this point: The earliest Tarzan books were the best, the latter ones became repetitive. But then, in order for teacher to have known this, she woulda had to have read 'em, right...?
[2] But a pure, chaste manlove...
[3] Check out the 1898 Major League Baseball anti-cussin' memo, but caution: In-#%&@ing-credibly *N*S*F*W*!!!
