Re: Phonemes

Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:18:30 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:42B4ABC6.7CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
>
> > Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> >> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:19:21 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> >> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >> <news:42B41F5B.65BD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> Oh, and in "By His Bootstraps," which I've seen called
> >>> "the ultimate time travel story,"
>
> >> Which is nonsense: clearly that honor goes to 'All You
> >> Zombies'!
>
> > I don't remember that one ...
>
> The fellow who's his own mother and father.
>
> > At any rate, none of them compare to "Nightfall," or "The
> > Ugly Little Boy," or the robot stories, even
> > "Bicentennial Man"
>
> Obviously I disagree. 'All You Zombies', 'The Man Who
> Traveled in Elephants', and 'The Unpleasant Profession of
> Jonathan Hoag' are right up there, to pick three that I
> happen to remember at the moment.
>
> [...]
>
> > "The Nine Billion Names of God" is Clarke, isn't it?
>
> Yes.
>
> [...]
>
> >>> It's especially peculiar that he was considered so
> >>> "liberal" because you didn't learn until p. 250 of ST
> >>> that the hero was dark-skinned. What up wit dat?
>
> >> The obvious point is that it doesn't matter -- which is
> >> precisely as it should be.
>
> > Then why did he make a point of giving him any skin color
> > at all?
>
> I would say that he didn't, and that your comment says more
> about your perception than about what's in the book.

I don't remember such a thing from the book; I read it somewhere.

He must have had a reason for making the guy Negro halfway through the
book. What can it have been?

> > If he wanted to make an anti-racist statement, he
> > could have had the guy experience racism.
>
> That was done in _Farnham's Freehold_. It would have been
> out of place in ST.

Must've been after MiaHM, which I gave up on in disgust halfway through.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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