dls@hocse.UUCP (03/21/84)
Here comes my off-net friend again: Commentary on: > From kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 > Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers > Subject: Re: Heinlein and FRIDAY > Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 16:43:25 EST > > I've got an idea: why not interpret the novel Friday based on what's > in it, rather than what you wish was in it? A cheap shot. Besides, most criticism of a book consist of telling what you think the author did wrong and what he/she should have done instead, i.e. what you wish was in the book. > The present controversy is over Friday's marrying a man who had > previously raped her. Well, perhaps she wouldn't have thought of it > that way; he was another AP like her, he was a member of her own profession > (giving them a common interest), he helped her escape onto the colony > planet (if I remember correctly). In addition, she wanted desperately > to belong to a family; getting married is a good first step towards that. This is like saying if a chemist is raped by another chemist, they are both human beings and they have their work in common. Give me a break! > I don't remember whether or not there would have been other APs in the > colonies; from what I remember, she felt that she couldn't trust regular > people, because they might find out her background and turn against her. > In that case, the rapist might have been the one person she could trust. Run that one by me again please? > Besides which, the guy had been kind to her (given that it was his job > to rape her; he was kinder than the others involved), and she hadn't > had to watch him as she was being raped. Perhaps that made it easier > to forget the incident (especially since she'd "turned off" at the time). The one reasonable point in this whole item. > I must admit that I was rather lukewarm about Friday when first I read the > book. Now, looking back on the half-remembered plot, and with the flames > going back and forth on the net to stimulate thinking about it, I'm > growing to appreciate it more. So, keep those flames burning! > .XS > -Kieran A. Carroll > ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll Well, I did want to stimulate thinking.