[ale] "i am a god"

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

SIASL is a good treatise on the impact of certain relationship styles in
the "real world"
that existed in the latter half of the 20th century.  Big Love without
the Mormonism.
Jubal is the sort of character you would want to be.  He is fun and a
little grungy. 
Relaxed and resourceful.  Much more understandable than the Michael
character.

Try "Illuminati!" by Wilson and Shea, and also the nexy trilogy Wilson
did...

-Wolf


-----Original Message-----
From: aaron <aaron at pd.org>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] "i am a god"
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:41:57 -0500


On 2009, Dec, 18, , at 8:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I never read Stranger until 1993. A that time I read the rerelease  
> that was the original manuscript version.
>
> I want to be Juble Harshaw when I grow up :-)
>
I haven't read Stranger -- more of an Arthur Clarke / Kurt Vonnegut /
Kilgore Trout / Stannislaw Lem scifi fan  -- so the name alone made
me curious about the character.  This is the front of his wikipedia
entry:

" Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a  
Strange Land,
a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw,  
LL.B., M.D.,
Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary,  
neo-pessimist
philosopher, devout agnostic, professional clown, amateur subversive,  
and parasite
by choice. "

I definitely can see the appeal in being this person.  Sans the
degrees (which I can fake if needed...) I'm about 75% Jubal without
even knowing it and I figure Jim at about 85% without trying, too.
:-)

peace
aaron








>
>> On Dec 18, 2009 8:38 AM, "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>
>> I know - I often use the word myself.
>>
>> I first read Stranger (and most of Heinlein's other works) in the  
>> mid-to-late 70s.  This last year I bought another copy and reread it.
>>
>> It's a shame they haven't done a better job with the few Heinlein  
>> books made into movies.  Starship Troopers was a joke and ignored  
>> many of the points Heinlein as an Annapolis grad was trying to  
>> make about duty in favor of showing as much gore as possible.
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