Due South: "Mountie and Soul"

"Mountie and Soul" (DS 3.7)
Original airdate: Oct. 26, 1997
Favorite quote:
DEVLIN: [to Fraser] Where're you from?
RAY: [hastily] This is Constable Benton Fraser, he first came to Chicago on the killers of his father, he's Canadian, you don't wanna know. Bare-knuckle fighter.
FRASER: Ah, no, Ray, I only wrestled bears.

--or--

RAY: Was that like a good "hmm" or a bad "hmm"?
FRASER: It was like a soy sauce "hmm."

Spoilers.

( It's the live ones that make me squeamish. )

Waterlog

TIME: 32 min.
DISTANCE 3.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 84.9
DISTRACTION: Prof. Rabkin on Heinlein.
SHIRE-RECKONING: Still trudging through the forest.

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This lecture was an awful lot of book report and precious little analysis. Libertarian politics, father figures, yadda yadda. I shrieked with indignation only twice, once when Rabkin, comparing Heinlein to Hemingway, suggested that the only reason Heinlein didn't win a Nobel was that he wrote SF, and the second and even more indignant time when he claimed The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is as great a novel as Huckleberry Finn. Which, no disrespect to TMIAHM, is just not true.

We also note that Professor Rabkin was extremely careful to discuss only early Heinlein. Nothing later than Friday was even acknowledged to exist.