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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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And I would soon spread manure of another sort, moonlighting nights and Sundays.
In 2177 Evelyn Fingerhut had not yet retired, so pick some new pen names and
sell him the same old tripe. The same stories-just file off the serial numbers.
File off the serial numbers, change the body lines a bit. give it a new
paint job, switch it over the state line, and it's yours!- that's the secret of
literary success. Editors always claim to be looking for new stories but they
don't buy them; they buy "mixture as before." Because the cash customers want to
be entertained, not amazed, not instructed, not frightened.
If people truly wanted novelty, baseball would have died out two centuries
back... instead of being ever popular. What can possibly happen in a baseball
game that everyone has not seen many times before? Yet people like to watch
baseball- shucks, I'd enjoy seeing a baseball game right now, with hot dogs and
beer.
"Hazel, do you enjoy baseball?"
"Never had a chance to find out. When the drugs against acceleration came
along, I went dirtside for my law degree but never had time to watch baseball
even in the idiot box. I worked my way through law school and was I busy! That
was when I was Sadie Lipschitz."
"Why were you? You said you didn't like that name." "Sure you want to know?
The answer to 'Why' is always
'Money.'"
"If you want me to know, you'll tell me
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