Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF

On 10/20/24 09:42, Don wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Robert Carnegie wrote:

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Don wrote:

Agatha Christie restored Poe's idealized detective. Her character,
Hercule Poirot, also brings back the Francophilia found in Poe's Dupin.

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  ????????Pardon me but Poirot is a Belgian. Nothing to do with Some
imagained Francophilia.

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Also, he has aeveral unlikeable qualities.
Such as obsession with grooming his moustache.

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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.

 A female medical director recently told me about another Hawaiian
flavored signal: the upside down pineapple. You see it on keychain
fobs or on the back windows of cars and trucks. It denotes a swinger.
 Bobby Sellers, how do you imagine Poirot's being Belgian precludes his
(and Christie's own) Francophilia? Or perhaps, as you see it, their
Francophilia is also imaginary? (In the latter case we'll agree to
disagree.)
 Danke,
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Since you cannot spell my name correctly I will agree to disagree with your opinion on Poirot, Don. It is obvious to me
that you are suffering from a visual handicap so I will not
say that you imagine Francophilia where none exists. I will
further not accuse you of Francophobis
bliss-full of sweetness and some light today.
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