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From: boreas@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (The Mad Tickle Monster)
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Subject: Re: Heinlein's panegyric for the Bomb
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 21:00:01 EDT
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>...
>There's about five pages at the end that's slightly more relevant to 
>the direct effects of the war, after the hero and heroine manage to
>travel back in time to just after the war.
>...
>    Radford Neal

Actually, to just before.  Remember Farnham's commentary at the start when
some stranger shows up at his door, and his daughter quips that he was her
date?  And at the end, when Farnham and his wife (or girlfriend, or whatever
you want to call her, as they weren't formally married) decides it isn't
the same universe since the car is now a stick-shift instead of automatic,
while they drive to the mountain mine to hide from the coming holocaust?

As long as I'm writing, I may as well add:  Tim Maroney et al would be
well-advised to read net.jokes for a while to learn about satire.  Even
though it's rare there, it nonetheless does occasionally show up.  And it's
even marked with smileys (:-) to help distinguish it.  (Barring that, try
Voltaire or Swift, or maybe some Twain).

After all, that's what "Pie from the Sky" was. . . .

			-- Michael


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