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Just read the afterword to Heinlein's 'new' book, 'For Us, The Living', written by Dr Robert James, a friend from a while back. In it he says, "Scholars are beginning to recognise the connections between Heinlein's writing and that of Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Enerson, Mark Twain, Jerome K Jerome, Rudyard Kipling, and James Branch Cabell, among other."
That's me! Well the Kipling, Jerome, bits anyway...and yes, I'm neither the first, best or only person to have noticed and commented, but I'm one of them.
Robert and I both had articles published in the Heinlein Journal (his research into Heinlein's second marriage to Leslyn was a remarkable feat of investigation as well as being intensely interesting) so I'm not leaping to too many conclusions when I think he read my essays on Heinlein and Jerome/Kipling. 'Scholar' is kind; the essays were my first attempts to write and probably could have been much better...but I had a damn good beta; the editor himself, Bill Patterson, the man trusted by Ginny Heinlein to write H's bio and now in charge of the Santa Cruz archive of Heinlein's papers.
So, don't tell me if he didn't mean me amongst others because my hands are over my ears and I'm going 'lalala' at the same time as I pat that page lovingly (yes, I have three hands; didn't they show in the photos I posted? Odd that.)
::dances about until swelled head makes me tipple over to the floor::
That's me! Well the Kipling, Jerome, bits anyway...and yes, I'm neither the first, best or only person to have noticed and commented, but I'm one of them.
Robert and I both had articles published in the Heinlein Journal (his research into Heinlein's second marriage to Leslyn was a remarkable feat of investigation as well as being intensely interesting) so I'm not leaping to too many conclusions when I think he read my essays on Heinlein and Jerome/Kipling. 'Scholar' is kind; the essays were my first attempts to write and probably could have been much better...but I had a damn good beta; the editor himself, Bill Patterson, the man trusted by Ginny Heinlein to write H's bio and now in charge of the Santa Cruz archive of Heinlein's papers.
So, don't tell me if he didn't mean me amongst others because my hands are over my ears and I'm going 'lalala' at the same time as I pat that page lovingly (yes, I have three hands; didn't they show in the photos I posted? Odd that.)
::dances about until swelled head makes me tipple over to the floor::
