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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Heinlein's panegyric for the Bomb
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 14:28:53 EDT
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<munch>

Someone mentioned Mark Twain. Very fitting reference. Many of Twain's
characters were elitist, racist, etc. Twain used that as a device to
show just how ridiculous it is to hold such views, for example, two
aristocratic-types fight a feud like backwards hillbillies and have
wax fruit on their mantle (presumably, because they're wax people),
Huck Finn treating Jim as property while Jim would willingly give his
life and freedom for Huck, and so forth. One of Heinlein's characters
saying "Oh well, maybe there are some good uses for nuclear war", and
then seeing the eventual results of such an attitude, seems to be a
similiar device.

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      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

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