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

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Don wrote:

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A thousand pardons Bobbie. Something unrelated only now occurs, although
it's been there all along. How impolitic of me!
>
Allow me to atone. Replace "Francophilia" with "Frenchness." As in
Poirot's clear and logical mind demonstrates his Frenchness. Regard
Poirot's Francophilia a regretable mistake made in haste to appease
the almighty alliteration.
     At the time my little grey cells told me it was wrong. But synonym
fossick fatigue forced me to post it as is.
>
Danke,
>

       Have you considered the possibility that you are discounting Belgian
culture of the presumed time? Do you remember that he was up
and coming in the Belgian Police when he encountered a case that it
was un-politic to solve? Now you might make the argument that many
European States and even in the Americas, France was the nation to
look to for fashion and style. But that is not Franco-philia but
the desire for style and to be thought to be fashionably attired
and hair styled in the the latest mode.

FWIW, French/Franco fashionability finds favor with the almighty
alliteration.

The un-politic story rings a bell. As soon as FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS plays
out for the second time on my mp3 player during dog walks, all Agatha
audiobooks will get another hearing and my impressions notated this
time through.

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On a different note, many FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS stories seem stylistically
similar to those found in Bradbury's early period. With an occasional
twist of plot added in the style of Serling.

Danke,

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