Blimp in a New Form
] ONLY heard the closing scene of H. ~G. Wells’ "The Truth About Pyecraft," but it appeared worthy of the original. Pyecraft was a gross person who obtained a magic recipe for "loss of. weight,’ took it and floated gently up to the ceiling, where he lived a frustrated and indignant life for some days till a friend prescribed leaden underwear. The beauty of the thing was the psychological relationship between Pyecraft and friend, who would have hated his guts if the circumstances had not rendered them hardly worth considering, yet helped him out, whereat Pyecraft made his life such a hell by persistent pleading for secrecy that (in the original) the friend wrote a story and threatened to make it public. In the radio version, however, he threatened to come upon Pyecraft as he slept and abstract his leaden boots, thus leaving him in a ‘state of uplift. It was the early Wells -the inspired storyteller-at his best. If only-but I grow political.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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168Blimp in a New Form New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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