Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Heinlein's panegyric for the Bomb Message-ID: <580@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 11:47:32 EDT Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.580 Posted: Mon Sep 15 11:47:32 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 02:38:57 EDT References: <1071@hoptoad.uucp> <8536@duke.duke.UUCP> <1083@hoptoad.uucp> Lines: 20 Xref: linus net.sf-lovers:15304 talk.politics.misc:154 > tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) >>If Heinlein himself said (and not one of his characters) that he supports >>nuclear was (no rational human being does and I believe Heinlein to be >>rational) then you would have proof. > Surely you could not have missed the obvious fact that Heinlein's character > was delivering a polemic of Heinlein's, as always happens in Heinlein's > books. The pedantic speechifying was obvious. Surely *you* could not have missed the *very* obvious fact that everything that this character says in this "pedantic speech" is proven *wrong* by the events that follow? Or perhaps... you didn't read the book? -- A little ignorance can go a long way. --- Solomon Short {quoted by David Gerrold} -- Wayne Throop !mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw