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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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is one of the classics of SciFi – Even if you read no other Heinlein you
should read it. Heinlein was called “The Dean of Science
Fiction” because many of his contemporaries saw him as a master of the
genre. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Don’t get me wrong – There are
some Heinlein books that I could do without but by and large I enjoyed most of
what he wrote. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>By the way Jubal shows up again in
Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My favorite concept from Stranger was the “Fair
Witness”. This was a professional beyond a notary public that
you would hire to observe something that could be used as an unbiased witness
in the event there were legal questions later. The example
Jubal uses in talking to Dorcas (his staff fair witness) is to ask her what
color the house up the hill is. She turns and looks at it and says “It
is white on this side”. He notes that since he asked her what
color it “is” rather than “was” she had to look before
replying and also could only state what she could observe “this side”.
This despite the fact she had seen the house many times before and the obvious
assumption most would make that it is white all the way around.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Arthur C. Clarke was also one of my
favorites. If you like him you’d probably like Orson Scott Card as
he like Clarke spends time exploring how his characters feel. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stanislaw Lem was interesting
reading. He writes in his native Polish. His books translated
into German and then into English seemed very humorless though quite
good. His books translated directly into English were quite
humorous. I always wondered if it was the German translation that lost
humor or if it was just the difference in the stories themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 18, 2009
9:06 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] "i am a
god"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>You
should see the company he keeps!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Dec 18, 2009 6:47 PM,
"aaron" <<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color="#500050" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:#500050'>On 2009, Dec, 18, , at 8:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote: > I
never read Stranger until 1993. A that time I...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I haven't read Stranger -- more of an Arthur Clarke / Kurt Vonnegut /<br>
Kilgore Trout / Stannislaw Lem scifi fan -- so the name alone made<br>
me curious about the character. This is the front of his wikipedia<br>
entry:<br>
<br>
" Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a<br>
Strange Land,<br>
a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw,<br>
LL.B., M.D.,<br>
Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary,<br>
neo-pessimist<br>
philosopher, devout agnostic, professional clown, amateur subversive,<br>
and parasite<br>
by choice. "<br>
<br>
I definitely can see the appeal in being this person. Sans the<br>
degrees (which I can fake if needed...) I'm about 75% Jubal without<br>
even knowing it and I figure Jim at about 85% without trying, too.<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
peace<br>
aaron<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color="#500050" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:#500050'>> >> On Dec 18, 2009 8:38 AM, "<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Jeff Lightner</st1:PersonName>" <<a
href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote: >>
>> I know - I ...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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