Sujet : Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
De : kludge (at) *nospam* panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 20. Oct 2024, 14:25:48
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
Message-ID : <vf30cs$g8j$1@panix2.panix.com>
References : 1 2 3 4
Robert Carnegie <
rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/10/2024 20:03, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Agatha Christie restored Poe's idealized detective. Her character,
Hercule Poirot, also brings back the Francophilia found in Poe's Dupin.
Pardon me but Poirot is a Belgian. Nothing to do with Some
imagained Francophilia.
>
Also, he has aeveral unlikeable qualities.
Such as obsession with grooming his moustache.
I found this amusing as a kid, because in Hawaii where I lived at the time,
grooming your moustache is a signal that you wish to purchase marijuana.
--scott
-- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."