Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:53:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20241011a@crcomp.net> <20241020a@crcomp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ae6ae3be1d37b0d3d169c17df07f965d"; logging-data="1067515"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W5sz/Z9nXk8tH75PB8wd40Bp0uRTbdFQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PDSKidy/5TFN7J0FkqmpmZ3BosU= Bytes: 2165 On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:44:55 -0700, Robert Woodward wrote: >In article , > William Hyde wrote: > >> Don wrote: >>=20 >> > Bobby Sellers, how do you imagine Poirot's being Belgian precludes = his >> > (and Christie's own) Francophilia? Or perhaps, as you see it, their >> > Francophilia is also imaginary? (In the latter case we'll agree to >> > disagree.) >>=20 >>=20 >> Read the books, and you will understand. >>=20 > >It has been a few decades since I have read any of the Hercule Poirot=20 >stories, but I don't remember any comment that he was a Francophone.=20 >That he almost certainly was one was obvious. I think you mean "Francophile". He is, after all, a French-speaking Belgian. And proud of it. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"