The Managram In The Moon: #10 Tucker

GEORGETUCKER 

ROCKETEGGRUE

Poor Tucker's suffering

rocket-egg rue:

"No eggs were involved.

Anti-gravity...nu...?"

A Voyage to the Moon

1827

The Managram In The Moon: #9 Goose

MOTHERGOOSE

MOOSGOTHERE

Mother Goose:

"'Moo!'s go there,

i.e., cows. (Not 

dinnerware.)"

Hey! Diddle Diddle

pre-16th century 

The dog and the runaway

dish and the spoon...?

No evidence either 

lit out for the Moon. 

The Managram In The Moon: #8 Ives

CORASEMMESIVES

MORESSAMEVICES

Asks Cora Semmes Ives,

"Pure mores...? Nope! Same vices

we wreak'd before that Northern War:

'tis how the cornpone slices." 

The Princess of the Moon:

A Confederate Fairy Tale

1869 

Ms. Ives's moon utopia depicts 

"a purified vision of the antebellum South." 

The Managram In The Moon: #7 Defoe

DANIELDEFOE

OFAILEDEDEN

"O, failed Eden,

island Earth,"

drones Dan. "Might you, Moon,

yield more worth...?"

The Consolidator

1705

The Managram In The Moon: #6 Godwin

FRANCISGODWIN

OFRANCIDWINGS

Godwin sings 

of rancid wings:

"But geese that smell

still fly quite well." 

The Man in the Moone

1620-38

The Managram In The Moon: #5 Méliès

GEORGESMELIES 

IMLESEGEORGES

Georges Méliès says,

"I'm Lèse Georges

were I to not my 

Moon ship forge."

A Trip to the Moon

1902

The Managram In The Moon: #4 Kepler

JOHANNESKEPLER

HESJOKEPLANNER 

Johannes Kepler...?

He's "Joke Planner."

Born, was Johann, 

to that manner. 

Somnium

1620-30

The Managram In The Moon: #3 Verne

JULESVERNE

JUNEREVELS

"June revels...?" yells Verne.

"J'aime tell'ment la Lune...

...nor do none more bright burn

than moons loomin' in June."

From the Earth to the Moon

1865

The Managram In The Moon: #2 Cyrano

CYRANODEBERGERAC

ECCEYERAGRANDORB

"Ecce! Yer a grand orb!"

So swears sword whiz Cyrano.

(Who croons to moons 

must join the loons

and off to Bedlam go.) 

Comical History of the States 

and Empires of the Moon

1657

Cyrano travels to the Moon using

rockets propelled by firecrackers.

The Managram In The Moon: #1 Lucian

LUCIANOFSAMOSATA

ISAFATMOONCASUAL

"Is a fat Moon casual...?"
asks Samosata's Lucian.
(Who asks so twee 

we'll ne'er let flee
his mental institution.) 

A True Story 

2nd century A.D.

The boat carrying Lucian and his

crew of 50 is swept up by a giant tidal 

cyclone and carried to the Moon. 

Materials for Moon voyage piece

Anon  late 9th - early 10th century  The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

     Moon princess, banished to Earth as a baby, returns to the Moon accompanied by an entourage of Moon people. 

Polish folklore  Pan Twardowski 
     Twardowski is dropped onto the Moon while being taken by the Devil to Hell. He continues to live on the Moon, allowing his companion, a spider, to descend from time to time to Earth on a thread.