Requesat en Pace

[madshutterbug]

On this date in 1907 Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler Missouri. If you're wondering why this means anything to me, you've not read my Interests on the Profile, eh? Mr. Heinlein is sometimes called the Dean of American Science Fiction. I don't know about that. I do consider him a consumate storyteller, one who to the best of my knowledge never claimed to be anything but a storyteller. That's as opposed to, say, a literary genious.

Probably because of that honesty, as well as inate skill, he is indeed one of my favourite writers. And so I nod my head towards Missouri today, lift a glass, and say, "TANSTAAFL."

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[kenshusei.livejournal.com]

There's days when I wonder if there wasn't some strange cosmic hand in my not encountering Heinlein's stuff in earnest until the end of law school. I don't think I would have appreciated its beauty if the world hadn't already bloodied my nose a bit.

Here's to a good storyteller.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

Oh, perhaps. On another hand, you might of re-read it after your nose got bloodied, and nodded to yourself, and said, I shoulda seen that coming. *G* I know I have.