The Learners: A Novel (No Series) by Kidd Chip

Author:Kidd, Chip [Kidd, Chip]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

From the other side of the wall: a bald, beckoning scream.

I had heard a thing like that only once before, when I was eight, on a Saturday afternoon. I was listening to Tarzan on the radio, in our living room. Lying on the floor, amid a sea of paper, I was lost in one of my favorite games: trying to draw what was I listening to. Tarzan was great for this—no worries about what everyone was wearing, not like The Shadow, say, or Sky King. And jungles, their organic linear sprawl, were much easier to commit to newsprint with crayons than cities or spaceships.

Anyway, things were not going well for the Ape Man and Jai, his young sidekick. No surprise there. On the run from perpetually furious safari poachers, Tarzan faced a giant gorge, hundreds of feet deep and about twenty feet wide. On the other side was Jai, tied up to a tree for safekeeping by the white hunters. No vines in sight, naturally. The narrator was getting unusually worked up:

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