Okay Chrtis
it's from Robert heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_ all about a
mystical Martian jesu-type, who
s into group sex, however, & LOVE: however defined.
Heavy power in the 60s, even if Heinlein really wasn't into all that love
generation stuff.
I'd say it's made it out into 'the real world' mainly because so many
hackers etc read SF, & it's till something of a bestseller, however silly
it really is...
Nice term though: to get inside something, know it intimately/intuitively,
something like that...
Doug
& thanks to Christopher Kelen for suggesting we think about poetry's
openness again (followed by others & I agree with them all) I tend to shift
my beliefs with what I'm reading among other things; you should see the
preacher I become when teaching, say, Donne's Holy Sonnets... for the
nonce, so to speak...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
The trees
have ears
The moon
stalks lovers
Nelson Ball
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