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truepennyTIME: 32 min.
DISTANCE 3.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 84.9
DISTRACTION: Prof. Rabkin on Heinlein.
SHIRE-RECKONING: Still trudging through the forest.
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.
DISTANCE 3.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 84.9
DISTRACTION: Prof. Rabkin on Heinlein.
SHIRE-RECKONING: Still trudging through the forest.
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.
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Date: 2008-11-22 05:08 am (UTC)