{"product_id":"2940014008792","title":"Solander's Radio Tomb","description":"_\"Pigs Is Pigs\" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story. The\u003cbr\u003e    intricacies in radio are so great, and the changes occur so quickly\u003cbr\u003e    that no one can afford to make a will wherein a radio provision\u003cbr\u003e    figures. Once we thought of having a radio loud speaker installed in\u003cbr\u003e    our coffin to keep us company and make it less lonesome. After\u003cbr\u003e    reading this story we quickly changed our mind. The possibilities\u003cbr\u003e    are too various._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI first met Mr. Remington Solander shortly after I installed my first\u003cbr\u003eradio set. I was going in to New York on the 8:15 A.M. train and was\u003cbr\u003esitting with my friend Murchison and, as a matter of course, we were\u003cbr\u003etalking radio. I had just told Murchison that he was a lunkheaded noodle\u003cbr\u003eand that for two cents I would poke him in the jaw, and that even a\u003cbr\u003epin-headed idiot ought to know that a tube set was better than a crystal\u003cbr\u003eset. To this Murchison had replied that that settled it. He said he had\u003cbr\u003ealways known I was a moron, and now he was sure of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you had enough brains to fill a hazelnut shell,\" he said, \"you\u003cbr\u003ewouldn't talk that way. Anybody but a half-baked lunatic would know that\u003cbr\u003ewhat a man wants in radio is clear, sharp reception and that's what a\u003cbr\u003ecrystal gives you. You're one of these half-wits that think they're\u003cbr\u003eclassy if they can hear some two-cent station five hundred miles away\u003cbr\u003eutter a few faint squeaks. Shut up! I don't want to talk to you. I don't\u003cbr\u003ewant to listen to you. Go and sit somewhere else.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, this was what was to be expected of Murchison. And if I did\u003cbr\u003elet out a few laps of anger, I feel I was entirely justified. Radio fans\u003cbr\u003eare always disputing over the relative merits of crystal and tube sets,\u003cbr\u003ebut I knew I was right. I was just trying to decide whether to choke\u003cbr\u003eMurchison with my bare hand and throw his lifeless body out of the car\u003cbr\u003ewindow, or tell him a few things I had been wanting to say ever since he\u003cbr\u003ebegan knocking my tube set, when this Remington Solander, who was\u003cbr\u003esitting behind us, leaned forward and tapped me on the shoulder. I\u003cbr\u003eturned quickly and saw his long sheeplike face close to mine. He was\u003cbr\u003echewing cardamon seed and breathing the odor into my face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Outraged citizens were removing their dead.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My friend,\" he said, \"come back and sit with me; I want to ask you a\u003cbr\u003efew questions about radio.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079814332656,"sku":"2940014008792","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014008792_p0.jpg?v=1763598944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014008792","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}