HI Dave,

On Sat 2037-May-09 06:47, Dave Drum (1:124/311) wrote to Richard Webb:

 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.

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

DD> Moon is a completely different story and Professor de la Paz is a
DD> supporting character. The mains were a sentient computer named Mike
DD> and a computer mechanic named Manuel "Manny" Garcia O'Kelley.  
DD>  

That's right, I recalled De La Paz I think, and that's where my fogged
brain mixed them.

 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 .

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

YEp, read the cut version first, and back in 2003 the
library of congress brailled the uncut version.  sTill a
great read even three decades later.

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

OF course, and why I found it fascinating as a very young
man when I first read it.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+