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Originally Posted by The Ace  Longwinded ? Long, certainly, but seldom winded.
His long rants drive me up the wall and, quite often, I don't really want to live in his world. He's a reactionary old twonk and a vehicle for Heinlein's less-savoury opinions. |
Let's not forget that various Heinlein characters also had more than a little trouble keeping from shooting Woody... Col. Colin Campbell, for instance, in
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.... Perhaps he was playing devil's advocate, but this may also be a case of it being a very chancy thing identifying a character's strongly-held opinions and those of his author.....