[Will: I'm not getting your posts, and I tried two separate sites. I had
to cut and paste from Google.]
>Perhaps he asked it in a snide way but the question remains.
He isn't the actual Glory Road character, and he certainly isn't Lazarus
Long, nor am I a relative of his. I have no obligation to treat his
obnoxiousness like Lazarus' relatives treat his.
>Where did you get this bit of wisdom?
Observation, and some thinking.
>I can certainly quote you pages of
>examples from several authors that would be exceptions.
Oh, it's easy to think of exceptions, but that's because anything you can
write as a rule of thumb will have exceptions. There's always an implied
"... assuming other rules don't apply". This doesn't make the rule
particularly weak, it just makes it like any other rule.
I don't see a reason to think another rule applies here. Heinlein's not
satirizing Lazarus-type people. He's not setting him up to be disproven
by events in the story. He's not putting his ideas into the mouth of a
villain. You might disagree, but if so, that's something we can
*discuss*;
it's not a reason to say "anyone who thinks Lazarus represents the opinion
of the author is an <insert vague insult here>".
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Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net /
http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"In a superhero story, Superman jumps off buildings and flies. In a
realistic
story, Superman doesn't jump off buildings and can't fly. Deconstruction
is
writing a story where Superman can't fly but he still jumps off of
buildings."
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