Heinlein et al.

Wed Nov 4 04:14:45 UTC 2009

At 11/3/2009 08:58 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>Towards the end of his career, RAH's novels got very long, very meandering,
>explicitly sexual, and very weird. Turned out, he had a *tumor* that was
>blocking the flow of blood to his *brain* (really!) and after it was
>removed, his fiction (and, reportedly, his personality) really changed
>again.

Did his politics change also?  Might this be the explanation for,
say, George Bush Jr., Rush Limbaugh, Mark Sanford, ... ?

Joel

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