From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: br!n: it's 3-3-3, in 4-4-4 it will be 7-7-7 Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 05:29:45 -0600
At 04:18 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:Bryon wrote:I also thought The Cat Who Walked Through Walls.and The Number of
the Beast were both rather lousy, myself. I enjoyed Time Enough for Love,
but he sure has some odd notions about sex in there (ie: the time travel
incest thing).
I haven't read _Time Enough for Love_, but there is a short story by Heinlein in which the main character ends up being his own father, mother, and child, and recruits himself to work at his current job. It's a very strange little story.
"By His Bootstraps."
In TEfL, the main character clones himself as twin females with whom he goes on to have relations before using a time machine to go back in time and seduce his mother while he was a little boy. In _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_, we learn that his problem was apparently hereditary, as his mother had similar yearnings toward her father.
The decision as to which family is stranger is left up to the reader.
I always thought it unfortunate that Heinlein didn't have Lazarus Long blind himself in an Oedipal fit somewhere along the line.
The man was irony-deficient. :)
Jon
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