Re: [tlug] epcEditor [OT, but not in a thread started this way]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> writes:

    Jim> [Christopher SEKIYA (Re: [tlug] epcEditor) writes:]
    >>> > I don't think it was Heinlen - he never had much of a sense
    >>> of humour.

It certainly was dry, what there was of it.

    >>> I can confirm that it was Heinlein -- spoken by Jubal Harshaw,
    >>> IIRC.

    Jim> Jubal Harshaw? As in Stranger in a Strange Land?

    Jim> No way, Jose'.

Now, now.

    Jim> Perhaps we are conflating two different things.

We are.  But as you wrote it originally (without the NYPD cop), it
definitely was a paraphrase of a passage from Heinlein, and it very
well could have been "Stranger".  Somehow it seems more likely to have
been Lazarus Long in "Methuseleh's Children."


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