-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> My personal political philosophy, as well as it can be written, was
 DD> written down by Admiral Bob (Robert A. Heinlein) in his "The Moon Is
 DD> A Harsh Mistress". I read the passage where Professor Bernardo de la
 DD> Paz explains what his being a "rational anarchist" means and I said
 DD> to myself, "Fat boy, that's your political life in a nutshell!"

 RW> Ah yes, Rudbeck of Rudbeck.  A good fun read.  REread it
 RW> about a decade ago just for grins when I found it at the
 RW> braille library one day.

You've got your Heinleins mixed. Thorby Baslim Krausa, aka Thor Rudbeck of
Rudbeck was the protagonist of "Citizen of the Galaxy" one of Admiral Bob's
so-called "juveniles".

Moon is a completely different story and Professor de la Paz is a supporting
character. The mains were a sentient computer named Mike and a computer
mechanic named Manuel "Manny" Garcia O'Kelley.  
 
 RW> THat one still can't top Stranger in a strange land.  That
 RW> book was every anti establishment teenage hippie male's
 RW> ultimate fantasy when I first read it.  co-opt the fancy
 RW> lawyer dude's pool of beautiful secretaries into being your
 RW> harem and support your comunal living lifestyle by using the tools and
 RW> techniques of organized religion against it.  BUt, it was a cautionary
 RW> tale for such as myself at 15 too, i.e.
 RW> the squares will win, there are more squares than people
 RW> like you, so meet 'em halfway and stay under the radar .

Stranger came out in 1960 to MUCH heat from the "establishment".
To the point
where Scribner's excised chunks of the original story. I have a copy of the
original (as first published) and a copy of the "complete and unexpurgated"
version. Oddly the cuts were all on the mild sexuality - not on the political
message(s) which was very much more radical.  Bv)=

Lot of truth in that volume. And a lot of things that we see as self-evident
today that were carefully swept under the rug by the nanny state back then.

ENJOY!!!

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