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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
Date: 20 Oct 2024 13:25:48 -0000
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Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/10/2024 20:03, Bobbie Sellers 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.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."