Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel) writes:
>And we're going around again and again on "The Barrel of Bricks", just
>like plenty of times before in this newsgroup.  And people are trying
>to find "out"s: "Why didn't the employer just post a sign 'Do Not Load
>A Barrel With More Than You Weigh'?", "What if he just didn't load the
>barrel as much?", "Why doesn't he just let go immediately and get out
>of the way?", "Why doesn't he have an antigravity/gravity belt?", and
>so forth.
>
>All the replies are missing the point.  Campbell didn't see it, which
>is why he sent back "The Barrel of Bricks" for extra rewrites, trying
>to find a way to get the main character out.  But the point is that
>the Universe doesn't care about people.
>
>    F = (-9.8 m/s/s) a
>
>is a cold equation that cannot be argued with.
>

OBSF:  Miles Vorkosigan and Katerine in Komarr.

scott