![]() ![]() Zeb, having a premonition, grabs the three of them and ducks behind another vehicle before Jacob and Deety's vehicle explodes. As they are approaching their vehicles, Hilda comes out, deciding to tag along. As they are leaving, Deety and Zeb rescue Jacob from a heated argument he is having with another faculty member before a fight breaks out. Zeb figures out and explains to Deety that he is not the one who wrote the article but a relative with a similar name.Īfter dancing a very intimate tango, Zeb jokingly suggests the dance was so strong they should get married, and Deety agrees. Deety is trying to get Zeb to meet her father to discuss what she thinks is an article Zeb wrote about n-dimensional space, even going so far as to offer herself. In the opening, Deety is dancing with Zeb at a party at Hilda's mansion. The names "Dejah Thoris", "Burroughs", and "Carter" are overt references to John Carter and Dejah Thoris, the protagonists of the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is a series of diary entries primarily by each of the four main characters: Zebadiah "Zeb" John Carter, programmer Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter, her mathematics professor father Jacob Burroughs, and off-campus socialite Hilda Corners. Excerpts from the novel were serialized in the magazine Omni (1979 October, November). ![]() The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. ![]()
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