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The older and greater in the status, the less awareness of the realities of the modern international community and the greater scorn for pragmatists like Captain Keith Laumer, who'd transferred into the diplomatic service from the Air Force.
Thanks Tay. Heinlein's juveniles from the 1950s are my favorite books of all (not a fan of his output after 1960 though - too repetitious and too much free love for my taste).Thanks Naif for the call, wink at the intuition
and I agree that poetry is everywhere potent;
in the words of Urban Dance Squad,
it's when a piece of the mind connects with the rhythm.As such, it can infuse any human production
in any field. High maths are things of beauty
to those with ability enough, prose can flow
and in all corners of the world, policemen dance!
On that piece you gave us, I liked this sentence
and again agree with experience based writing
as making a big difference in novels, esp. SciFi.
It brings to mind that you could check out Heinlein.
The youth stories as Space Cadet culminate with
Starship Troopers in 1959. They're as right wing as
you'd expect from a military family son who served
for 5 well filled years until discharged for tuberculosis.
After trying out a couple avenues ( studying and politics )
and quite a few disparate jobs, he married his third wife
- successively of course as this is in the WestCiv zone -.
That woman changed him and even though his writing
had only begun when they got together, a second series
of titles shows more fun and fantasy - compare The Puppet
Masters with The Rolling Stones published months apart-.
And his main production considered now, after having ended,
is comprised of a third series begun before Starship Troopers
as far back as the '41 short story behind Methuselah's Children,
centered on Stranger in a Strange Land & running until the end,
infused with free love and complex relations, etc. talking IMHoO
about what it is to be human and the difficulty of it for all of us.
That man changed throughout his life and so did his writings.
Experience-based indeed!
As for our H!Tch buddy, his call was just too wide for me
( and maybe for you too seeing how you showered him? ).
I'm reading 5 books at the moment with 2 waiting by the main screen,
2 in French ( + the 2 awaiting ones ), 2 in English and one in Deutsch,
about the race for the poles, a diplomatic process spied upon in Europe
circa 1640s, a compendium of bizarre people, a biography of Albert
Schweitzer, human biology throughout evolution, a call for new History
and an anthropological overview of the lutins Bretons, Breizh sprites.
I'll let you guess which is in German ...
Great day to both of you, Tay.