As a small boy, Norman had always enjoyed
putting his chemistry set to ill use and blowing things up. But, as an adult he came to the conclusion
that the problem with blowing things up was that it always left such chaos
behind. Not that Norman was an
altogether tidy man, but explosions do tend to leave behind quite an
unwholesome jumble.
So, when now called upon to show his scientific stuff, as it were,
Norman determined that he would create a clean bomb that would tidy up after
itself.
And thus, with this goal in mind, and his thoughts that Alfred Nobel had invented dynamite and that Norman
still was very keen to win a Nobel
Prize, Normanite was born.
Normanite was unique in that it was an implosive, it sucked rather than
blew.
(from The Chronicles
of Banarnia, by Robert Rankin)
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