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		<title>Don’t do anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MacGuffin in Glory Road is the Egg of the Phoenix, a cybernetic record of the experiences of two hundred and three “emperors” and “empresses,” most of whom “ruled” all the known universes — and serves as an excuse for Heinlein to share his thoughts on politics: For the one thing that stood out as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One should never be killed by a stranger</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/03/one-should-never-be-killed-by-a-stranger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Glory Road, our hero faces another skilled swordsman — &#8220;an ugly cocky little man with a merry grin and the biggest nose west of Durante&#8221; — who does something he had heard of, never seen: He retreated very fast, flipped his blade and changed hands. A right-handed fencer hates to take on a southpaw; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A sword never jams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Glory Road Robert Heinlein makes the case for his hero to carry a sword: A properly balanced sword is the most versatile weapon for close quarters ever devised. Pistols and guns are all offense, no defense; close on him fast and a man with a gun can’t shoot, he has to stop you before [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/02/permanent-employment-very-high-pay-glorious-adventure-great-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Shackleton famously ran this ad in the newspaper to recruit men for his Endurance expedition: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. Only no one has ever found a copy of Shackleton’s ad, which was &#8220;reprinted&#8221; in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/02/instead-of-the-tawdry-lousy-fouled-up-mess-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Glory Road is chock-full of Heinlein-isms— plus dueling scars and methane-burning dragons — but one passage stands out for stating his theme outright: I wanted a Roc’s egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody knows where it comes from but it can’t be ignored</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read a friend&#8217;s copy of Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Glory Road back in high school, only a couple things stuck with me: (1) dueling scars, and (2) methane-burning dragons. When I recently re-read it, it was chock-full of Heinlein-isms. Here&#8217;s what jumped out at me in the first few dozen pages: It was an election year [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The head is mostly teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently mentioned that Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Glory Road introduced me to Germany&#8217;s tradition of fencing in order to earn a dueling scar. The other tidbit that stuck with me from this book was his science-fiction version of that fantasy staple, the dragon: Of course these aren’t dragons. No, they are uglier. They are saurians, more like Tyrannosaurus [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A toy, suited only to make pretty scars for girls to admire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 12:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Slovenian guest recently suggested that I take a look at the traditional German sword-fighting art called Mensur, which reminded me that I&#8217;ve discussed Germany&#8217;s odd fencing fraternities before, but I didn&#8217;t mention where I&#8217;d first heard of their unusual style of fencing, in Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Glory Road, his not-quite-fantasy novel, where the protagonist, fresh [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambiguous, longed for and desolate</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/ambiguous-longed-for-and-desolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science fiction illuminates the dreams of the new moon-rushers: Take the origins of Pence’s reference to the “lunar strategic high ground”. In one of the first moon novels written after the second world war, Robert Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), an atomic scientist and his teenage crew discover, on what they believe to be the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This is known as &#8220;bad luck”</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/this-is-known-as-bad-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 11:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creative class drives cultural and economic flourishing, Richard Florida argued (in The Rise of the Creative Class), but now the &#8220;superstar cities&#8221; that attract the creative class have grown increasingly unequal, a problem he dubs The New Urban Crisis: We find that as a city gets bigger, denser, more productive and more economically successful, inequality [&#8230;]]]></description>
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