No Business Telling

All right, an opening line quiz for you, Martha. What book does this come from?

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me or to any other. It’s from 1914.

If it helps, it’s been made into a movie probably a dozen or more times and a television show.

Multiple times. What? And an animated movie. What? Yeah. I don’t know, but it’s, it’s,

That’s a mood that makes me want to hear what the next sentence is. It’s Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

But this was funny about the story. The story itself is far more serious than a lot of the different versions that have been made into films and television,

Which tend to be often more lighthearted or a different kind of drama than the book.

The book is more traumatic, maybe, even than some of the films.

Traumatic or dramatic?

Traumatic, yeah, or more of a thriller, even.

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