Re: Phonemes

David Wright Sr. wrote:

Peter T. Daniels: He discovered sex.

David Wright Sr: I made no comment with respect to this. I have
heard this many times and have never received any answer to as to
what it even means. PTD could do us all a favor by giving his
interpretation.


I can only assume it means something I have alluded to earlier on -
some author comes across some idea they consider good and unthought
of, and then splatters it all around every subsequent work.
The annoying part is the splattering, not that it appears from a
certain poitn in time (hence it's irrelevant whether the author had
the idea all along but only used it after getting a permissive publisher).

Peter T. Daniels: He failed to handle the paradox of the 'letter
never written' in "By His Bootstraps". Asimov would never have made
that mistake.

David Wright Sr: I pointed out the fallacy in this, PTD made no
further comments on the subject. ----------------------------


I musta missed that. What was the fallacy?
Cf. Stargate's '1969'.

I have no objection to someone who doesn't like Heinlein. There are
a lot of authors whom I don't like. What I do object to is making
up or repeating in public false claims as the basis for that
dislike.


What of false claims for liking it?
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