Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:01:17 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <20241007a@crcomp.net> <20241011a@crcomp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4b12d38efc7d34b06b97fcaf01501cc5"; logging-data="68924"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19qeEN+wz0wzpsVh7Vi7NHG5MgcpNSzkcg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YHPm540ikOgsJoSfPZS3xvtfa3k= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1591 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.