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Updated: June 22, 2025
As the Planeteers opened and unpacked the crates, Rip and O’Brine inspected and the clerk checked the items off. The first case produced a complete chemical cutting unit with an assortment of cutting tips and adapters. Rip looked around for the gas cylinders and saw none. "Something’s wrong," he objected. "Where’s the fuel supply for the torch?"
He took the telescope from its padded case, and screwed its base to the tripod, then he adjusted the tripod until it was standing securely. "Watch this," he commanded. "You'll have to do it, because you can't carry the whole thing assembled." Using the rings, which were adapters, he fitted the camera to the eyepiece of the telescope. "That's all there is to it.
Nothing can have been suppressed of what existed; it was evidently thought that everything should be admitted with the final revision; but the tone was changed, additions were made, and 'improvements. Adapters are always strangely vain.
When, unassisted by the work of former adapters, he has succeeded in converting half-a-dozen eighteenth-century comedies into three or four act comedies, without any changes of scenery during an act, and has used all the matter of the old comedies in his versions and yet avoided the employment of the soliloquy, or the aside, or the explanatory dialogue in which A tells B what B knows already, he will have learnt a great deal of his craft.
The earliest of the adapters, of whose work fragments have been thus preserved to us, is one Demetrius, who, in the reign of Ptolemy II, at the end of the third century B.C.E., wrote a book on the Jewish kings. It was rather a chronology than a connected narrative, and Demetrius amended the dates given in the Bible according to a system of his own.
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