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| Newt Notice: The Stanley Green Pond Watch Group, to help preserve a breeding ground of the rare great-crested newt, had a website; but the site has vanished. Too bad. Sounded like a good group making a good effort for a good cause. |
WHY NEWTS?
Before What's-His-Name became the You-Know-What, anyone interested in newts knew and loved Karel Capek's book War with the Newts. (John Heidemann has an excerpt from the novel.)
Capek's book was the direct inspiration for my newt cartoons, which have
been published in various little magazines in both the States
and England. I had put together fifty of them in a manuscript
entitled 50 Newts for All Occasions but didn't get anywhere
marketing it. Happens.