Comments on: Spring-Heel’d Jack

By: Joseph Rainone

Joseph Rainone — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:47:35 +0000

I have located the original first appearance of SHJ with an illustration and brief fictionalized account based on the factual accounts from 1839. Mike Nash is supposed to be creating a book on the character and will add this fact.
I also have the original bound volume, the Fox version as well as the later ones in color. I also have a complete much larger than life version of it, bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine.
Again great job Larry!
best

Joe Rainone

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:53:20 +0000

Okay, so I’m in the car with my wife yesterday, and she is running her iPod through the car stereo. Lo and behold, this song comes on:
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/additem/418843921
I had never made the connection between this song and this character until now (since you’ve made me aware ) I thought I should bring it to your attention if you hadn’t heard it before.
-There seem to be some soundbites which play through the song. Maybe from a movie about the same character? Just a guess.

By: amapa

amapa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:28:56 +0000

For the record, calling a Tulku “supernatural” may be a slight misnomer. In common Tibetan usage, tulkus are advanced lamas (teachers) who control the reincarnation process and choose where and when they incarnate next, often retaining memory of past lives. If you believe in reincarnation, as Tibetans do, a tiny stretch of a “natural” process. That said, the word tulku more accurately designates an incarnated manifestation of an evolved being, rather than a reincarnation in the strict sense; very evolved beings and cosmic bodhisattvas are said to have many such emanations. E.g. the Dalai Lama is said to be a tulku of Avalokitshvara, the embodiment of compassion, in that latter sense, at the same time as he is a tulku of previous dalai lamas in the former sense. That later acception is closer to our idea of supernatural. But the fact is that monks deemed to be tulkus are comparatively common in Tibetan monasteries (most abbots are tulkus in the first sense at least), and would not evoke the surprise a “supernatural” being would evoke for us.
Cheers!

By: John Darque

John Darque — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:56:31 +0000

Oh man i love this guy he’s so freaking awesome