Balance
Yesterday wasn't so busy, I guess. I got up, wasted a bunch of time, ate lunch and lucked into a random amusing conversation about sci-fi with Jonathan, went to class, napped, dinner, rehearsal (Where I got to do a bunch of studying for m Hebrew quiz today), learning, and back to hang out with Dave, at which point I totally lost track of time. Oh well. Life goes on.
Speaking of random science fiction discussions, on the way back from dancing Monday night, Samara and I had an interesting discussion about Heinlein (why does Heinlein always come back to haunt me? I can't get away from him... No matter to whom I'm talking, his stuff always comes up eventually.) It was a nice balance for the usual Heinlein conversations I get into around here, where BORGling X goes "Heinlein's juvenile books are good, but the rest are gross, the man most have been a little crazy in his later years to write things with that much sex in them." Samara was much more interested in what the sex was there to be used for, rather to the opposite extreme of the previous folks. Myself- I don't really care so much. Sex in novels is there, if it isn't totally gratuitous, why should I care so much one way or the other? It is, however, hard to convey this idea to some of the folks to whom I've talked about it. OK- I've also been somewhat hesitant to say that too loudly because I'm somewhat afraid of what people would think of me. (So I'm telling them and the world here- go figure. I'm always better at things when they're written down instead of vocal.)I suppose the bottom line is that I don't really have a problem with Heinlein- I mean, the purpose of speculative fiction is to speculate. ANd if he wants to include marital structure in his speculations, why the heck not? Sure there are things in his books that in real life I'd probably find a bit odd, maybe even kind of disturbing- but I'm generally pretty good at seperating reality and fiction (at least when it's written fiction, and not on a screen).
Speaking of random science fiction discussions, on the way back from dancing Monday night, Samara and I had an interesting discussion about Heinlein (why does Heinlein always come back to haunt me? I can't get away from him... No matter to whom I'm talking, his stuff always comes up eventually.) It was a nice balance for the usual Heinlein conversations I get into around here, where BORGling X goes "Heinlein's juvenile books are good, but the rest are gross, the man most have been a little crazy in his later years to write things with that much sex in them." Samara was much more interested in what the sex was there to be used for, rather to the opposite extreme of the previous folks. Myself- I don't really care so much. Sex in novels is there, if it isn't totally gratuitous, why should I care so much one way or the other? It is, however, hard to convey this idea to some of the folks to whom I've talked about it. OK- I've also been somewhat hesitant to say that too loudly because I'm somewhat afraid of what people would think of me. (So I'm telling them and the world here- go figure. I'm always better at things when they're written down instead of vocal.)I suppose the bottom line is that I don't really have a problem with Heinlein- I mean, the purpose of speculative fiction is to speculate. ANd if he wants to include marital structure in his speculations, why the heck not? Sure there are things in his books that in real life I'd probably find a bit odd, maybe even kind of disturbing- but I'm generally pretty good at seperating reality and fiction (at least when it's written fiction, and not on a screen).