WX – WAYS AND MEANS OF I enjoy reading about all the things professional weather people do so they can tell us about possible changes in wind direction, velocity, projected pathways of entire systems potential modifications of the world wide – even solar and space dimensions of the weather . At time, they unload a bit much on us - snow, sleet, ice, rain, avalanches, floods, searing drought all those things we think we have had in more than sufficient amounts.
Several years ago novelist Sydney Shelton wrote a fine novel all weather oriented individuals should read about a time when man can “control” as well as predict and postulate potential deviations from established norms established by observation and detailed record management. Would you know how to control the weather? Would you do so to the mutual advantage of many, or to the financial advantage of an elite group.? In his novel which was titled “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”. The mystery writer creates a gigantic “Think Tank” with brothers heading up a group intended to be, by the founder, engineering genius a beneficent, worldwide society doing good for all. Younger brother takes over and develops a world wide system of weather control to be used to his advantage. In order to solidify his post as head of the Think Tank systematically begins to kill off all who oppose him.
The plan he sets motion feeds on itself and a cycle of executions became necessary from his view. The two detecting widows oppose him at every turn and writer Shelton comes up with some unusual ways of catching them. The novel does not have ordinary chapter divisions. Chapters consist of short and medium episodes more or less complete each within its self , setting forth views of participants including, quite often, those of the villain himself. The average reader feels he know what each character is supposed to do. A typical example: why, you might wonder does one of the girls, while they are fleeing from a hotel room bombing which was to have killed them insists on stopping in for half an hour at a beauty shop to have her hair done up. Moments later when a killer man wrestles her to the floor, he falls flat gurgling blood a seven-inch plastic, serrated “hair pin” in his jugular vein.
If you are seriously interested in planning to control the weather you will want to read this book. It's at your local library.
A.L.M . February 3, 2006 [c424wds]
