Message from @HeimatFreiheitTradition
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have you read the word grok yet?
grok = to share water, but also to commune in a deep way
Fair Witnesses = awesome invention! purely dispassionate observers, only relaying what *can* be known from a perspective
as far as I got it, grok = deep understanding, being immersed in the thing-ness of a concept
/ or person or thing
exactly, and throught them Heinlein makes us question what is being presented to us, and even more importantly makes us as WHO is giving us information
yea you seem to grok the concept of grok 😃
In undergrad I had to take a class on Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, and the teacher was a woman named Dr. Kelley and she would work a problem on the board, then turn around and make sure we grokked it - and yes she used the word. She was awesome
best stats class ever
"Have SPace Suit, Will Travel" = REQUIRED PRECURSOR READING
yes, to me, grokking is most apparent in math
the moment it switches from symbol-pushing to concept-manipulating
is the moment of grokking
true Brett, I do love that story. his YA was so under rated i think
AGREED ENTIRELY
HE WROTE "YA" LIKE TOLKIEN DID
I.E. SPANNING CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD
NOT THE MILQUETOAST SHIT THE FEMME MFAs PUMP OUT THESE DAYS
yea, it was allegedly for young pepole, but older people would read it and find value and meaning in his words as well
MFA's should all be beaten with a stick until they repay their absurd student loans
have either of you read it?
yea Dandelion Wine is YA usually, so is THe Halloween Tree
I've read it
YES BUT LIKE 25 YEARS AGO
AM A LARGE FAN OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES HOWEVER
I like the martian chronicles, but as far as space opera (would it be proper to call it space opera? /discuss) I prefer A Princess of Mars
haven't read it. my recent fav space opera is the Hyperion series - though mostly the first entry
NO, WOULD NOT CALL THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES SPACE OPERA
Hyperion? Was that the James S.A. Corey serise?
IT IS A TRAGEDY IN THE GREEK SENSE
no, the Dan Simmons one
TMC IS UNDERRATED AS LITERATURE IMHO
oh ok. yea i don't have those yet
TMC was very good. I love Bradbury and genuinly cried a little when he died. then I wanted to kick Neil Gaiman in the dick for being a smug cocksucker and bragging about how Bradbury consider him a son
and of course The Forever War. for me perhaps the best "space marines" book I've read. Personally found it more thoughtful than Startship Troopers
but maybe I didn't appreciate the finer aspects of the latter back when I read it
I liked TFW, but the ending is a total fucking cop out. He should have just let the female in the book die of old age, would have been more in line with what the book's ethos was about.
yes