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

In article <vf3fsl$h0gu$1@dont-email.me>,
 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Don wrote:
 

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.)

 
 
Read the books, and you will understand.
 

It has been a few decades since I have read any of the Hercule Poirot
stories, but I don't remember any comment that he was a Francophone.
That he almost certainly was one was obvious.

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