#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - August 16, 2025

 #edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - August 16, 2025 

August 16, 2025 and eleven years ago on this day in 2014, an audio version of “The Oakdale Affair”  was made available online from LIBRIVOX. Interesting in that the first media adaption of the novel was a silent film, with pictures and no words, and the Librivox adaption is words but no pictures.

The book is free, as are all audio books on Librivox. It runs a little over four hours. Here’s the link: https://librivox.org/the-oakdale-affair-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/

The drabble for today, “No Absolutes,” was inspired by the novel, “The Oakdale Affair.”

Dirty Eddie, a hobo, eyed Abigail Primm, pretending to be the Oskaloosa Kid. “That's a girl. Let’s take her valuables.”

Bridge, another bindlestaff, stepped in front of Abigail. “I think not, boys.”

“Bridge, robbing her is for the greater good, us. It’s a lesser evil to rob her than it is for us all to starve.”

“No, boys. It isn’t. There’s no greater good and lesser evil. Only good and evil. We must embrace one and resist the other, no matter how large or small.”

Eddie grumbled, “I don’t understand?’

“Then I’ll teach you the difference with a hickory stick.”