Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20241011a@crcomp.net> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="8776"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1403 Robert Carnegie 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."