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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:42:08 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> Don wrote:
>>>>>> Agatha Christie restored Poe's idealized detective. Her character,
>>>>>> Hercule Poirot, also brings back the Francophilia found in Poe's Dupin.
>>>
>>>  ????????Pardon me but Poirot is a Belgian. Nothing to do with Some
>>> imagained Francophilia.
>>
>>Also, he has aeveral unlikeable qualities.
>>Such as obsession with grooming his moustache.
>
> I found this amusing as a kid, because in Hawaii where I lived at the time,
> grooming your moustache is a signal that you wish to purchase marijuana.

A female medical director recently told me about another Hawaiian
flavored signal: the upside down pineapple. You see it on keychain
fobs or on the back windows of cars and trucks. It denotes a swinger.

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.)

Danke,

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