I have a particular affinity for most of Sam's twisted aphorisms in Starman Jones. For some reason, not a one will come to mind right now.
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Sun May 11, 2008 3:02 pm
jimmcgauley
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Re: Favorite Line
I guess one of my favourite lines is the opening of the very first RAH book I ever read,Have Space suit will travel.
" dad,I want to go to the moon" how can you not read on from that.
Mon May 12, 2008 4:42 am
DanHenderson
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Re: Favorite Line
Not my favorite, but the one most indelibly etched in my memory:
Jubal to one of his staff: "You already smell like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle the lad for more stinkum."
I was 13. I had just read Stranger. And this line came into my head and out my mouth as soon as I heard my mother express a wish, to one of her very proper friends, that my father would buy her some perfume. I didn't even know the meaning of the term "cat house." You can probably imagine the reaction this provoked.
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