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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Sheesh! A Calvinist accountant. It's a wonder you've got any emotions at all...
He's fantastic. A little more country and a little less electric guitar than I'd listen to usually, but his words are very moving.
Um... any of 'em?
The Man Who Sold the Moon is almost all good stories. I am fond of several in The Menace From Earth, too.
I listened over the radio, to try to prevent that. Got a few sniffles, anyway. A great tribute from England's second-greatest PM of the 20th century. I have no doubt she could have done Churchill's job, too.
I did turn on the TV, anyway, just long enough to watch the casket leaving the cathedral. When the President was given his salute, I came to attention and delivered my first-and-only salute to him as Commander-in-Chief, since I was not privileged to have served under him.
And as AirForce One takes off, it's heading towards Tolkien's Undying West.
Do those collections have stuff other than what's in "Expanded Universe"?
"And as AirForce One takes off, it's heading towards Tolkien's Undying West."
There was a point during one of the eulogies where someone made a reference to Reagan going "into the West" and I wondered if they were making an allusion to Tolkien.
I don't have EU so I don't know. I bet Rose does, though!
It's likely that the "into the west" could also have been the cowboy reference.
But now, President Reagan and Professor Tolkien will have the opportunity to discuss the similarities.
Jen, have you seen the "Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein" collection? Includes the stories "Magic, Inc.", "Waldo", "All You Zombies", and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", plus four others.
Uh, those were real horses, but I'm sure they understood the significance of the occasion. :)
No, and I've only read "All You Zombies" of the ones you mentioned (classic time-travel paradox story! My brain hurt, reading it)
Forward by Robert Heinlein
Lifeline
Successful Operation
Blowups Happen
Solution Unsatisfactory
The Last Days of the United States
How to be a Survivor
Pie From The Sky
They Do It With Mirrors
Free Men
No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying
A Bathroom of Her Own
On The Slopes of Vesuvius
Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
Pandora's Box
Where To?
Cliff and Calores
Ray Guns and Rocket Ships
The Third Millennium Opens
Who Are The Heirs of Patrick Henry
"Pravda" Means "Truth"
Inside Intourist
Searchlight
The Pragamtics of Patriotism
Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You
Larger than Life
Spinoff
The Happy Days Ahead
"It's likely that the "into the west" could also have been the cowboy reference."
Aha!--you could be right, there. Did he ever do any cowboy films, BTW?
I'd meaning to tell you, thanks for posting that picture of the radio! That's pretty much what I want!
"Magic, Inc." is one I really want to read. I've read a summary of it (in an old Cliffs Notes on Heinlein) and it sounds really interesting--like a mix of sf and fantasy a la the Harold Shea series.
waldo
/wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance.
He did some 59 film in his career. I would assume some were westerns. But I remember him hosting "Death Valley Days" in the 60s. Used to watch it with my dad.
Cool--or should I say, grokking :)
I could definitely see him in a Western. The WWII and Korean War movies I've seen him in strike me as very John Wayne-ish.
Yep, there are a few overlaps, but mostly different stuff.
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