Subject: Re: possible Salinger appearance
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Mon Jun 23 1997 - 13:20:49 GMT
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:27:16 -0400 (EDT) bananafish@lists.nyu.edu wrote:
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>On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU wrote:
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>> i like heinlein in general when i want something fun to read and not
>> think too hard, but _stranger from a strange land_ had real meat and one
>> of his short stories about a revolution in an asteroid belt raised
>> really good questions about war, individual rights, and the effect of
>> point of view on a situation. i wish i could remember the name, but i
>> haven't read the story in years.--matt
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>i thoght that stranger in a strange land was an intersting philosophy, but
>heinlein's awfully long-winded. i'd recommend the edited version, and if
>you're a real fanatic, the unexpurgated text afterwards. a question for
>everyone who has read it: what do you think of the feasibility of the
>concept of waterbrotherhood?
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>-myron
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m--i didn't think it was too verbose, but to each his own i suppose. anyway,
i'd like to think that waterbrotherhood is feasible, though i doubt it is,
especially for anyone having grown up with capitalist american ideology. i
thought the whole basic idea of learning to think in a totally new way solely to
relate to a single person was the best part of the book. also, the idea of the
human mind/soul being capable of more than we usually allow it to be has always
intrigued me.--m
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