A couple weeks back, while on the cruise, one of the books I had with me was Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.
Good stuff, of course. And an excellent paragraph from the book follows
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling – oh, Harshaw conceded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because evil was inescapable was no reason to term it as “good”. He wished that government would wander off and get lost.
Robert A, Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
Stop by tomorrow to find out what else I was reading and what I have added to my collection during my travels.
Also, and I’ll share pics of them if folks want me to do so, but does it say anything strange about me that my two favorite purchases while I was away were edged tools (a knife and a hatchet)?
I remember when I first read Stranger in a Strange Land; it was back in 1962, and I was ten years old. Had quite an influence on the way I viewed things as I grew older. One of these days I need to go back and read it again, just for the hell of it.