Talk:Golden Guide

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Herbert S. ZIM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee

No. 75-3776

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

573 F.2d 1318

June 2, 1978

In the beginning, Zim [FN1] created the concept of the Golden Guides. For the earth was dark and ignorance filled the void. And Zim said, let there be enlightenment and there was enlightenment. In the Golden Guides, Zim created the heavens (STARS) (SKY OBSERVER'S GUIDE) and the earth. (MINERALS) (ROCKS and MINERALS) (GEOLOGY).

And together with his publisher, Western, he brought forth in the Golden Guides knowledge of all manner of living things that spring from the earth, grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit-trees yielding fruits after their kind, (PLANT KINGDOM) (NON-FLOWERED PLANTS) (FLOWERS) (ORCHIDS) (TREES), and Zim saw that it was good. And they brought forth in the Golden Guides knowledge of all the living moving creatures that dwell in the waters, (FISHES) (MARINE MOLLUSKS) (POND LIFE), and fowl that may fly above the earth. (BIRDS) (BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA) (GAMEBIRDS). And Zim saw that it was good. And they brought forth knowledge in the Golden Guides of the creatures that dwell on dry land, cattle, and creeping things, (INSECTS) (INSECT PESTS) (SPIDERS), and beasts of the earth after their kind. (ANIMAL KINGDOM). And Zim saw that it was very good.[FN4]

Then there rose up in Western a new Vice-President who knew not Zim. And there was strife and discord, anger and frustration, between them for the Golden Guides were not being published or revised in their appointed seasons. And it came to pass that Zim and Western covenanted a new covenant, calling it a Settlement Agreement. But there was no peace in the land. Verily, they came with their counselors of law into the district court for judgment and sued there upon their covenants.

And they put upon the district judge hard tasks. And the district judge listened to long testimony and received hundreds of exhibits. So Zim did cry unto the district judge that he might remember the promises of the Settlement Agreement. And the district judge heard Zim's cry, but gave judgment for Western. Yea, the district judge gave judgment to Western on a counterclaim as well. Therefore, Zim went up out of the court of the district judge.

And Zim spake unto the Court of Appeals saying, make a sacrifice of the judgment below. And the judges, three in number, convened in orderly fashion to recount the story of the covenants and to discuss and answer the four questions which Zim brought before them. ...

This decision is damn funny. -- Toytoy 22:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

A fun bit of trivia.

It doesn't belong in the article, really, but The Golden Guide Stars was They Might Be Giants' source for the lyrics "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace were hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees ...". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.107.160.107 (talk) 00:13, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

editor is referring to Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas), a cover of a song from Space Songs, and this fact, if sourced, may actually belong in the article, to show cultural influence of these books. i took out the unsourced cultural commentary in the article, but it should be added back if sourced. I know the books are fondly remembered (i remember them fondly), but the principle here is verifiability, not truth.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:08, 6 September 2011 (UTC)