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RE: the recent discussion about Robert Heinlein and the origins of the word "grok", here's an archive link about him:
TNR: A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
UNSEE UNSEE
well
that's going to be a fun fact to drop in the relevant niche circles
Scientology polycules with a Heinlein fetish?
there’s a friend of mine that’s ex-scientology. didn’t get in if their own choice, but that of family. they got out before it could really get its claws into ‘em
but the reason I bring this up is because it’s from said friend that I learned of the fact that we have a Hubbard museum house in ZA. it looks like an episode of TNG fucked a vintage porn set, and it’s preserved in that state
I don’t have friends of such tendencies
or, perhaps better stated, I am not aware that I have such friends. and sincerely hope to avoid learning that I do
(e: this comment came first, and is why the other came to mind)
If either of the parties involved were just about any other science fiction author, it would be the among the least damning things I've heard of the other one, but it just had to be these two.
and that's twice in as many days that I have been doing a Lady Macbeth "out, out damn spot" routine with my entire central nervous system