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Codeine

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9. I had the same experience

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 31, 2019, 11:25 AM

Oct 2019

when I reread Lucifer’s Hammer. It wasn’t just racism, it was weirdly blatant and obvious racism that somehow I missed when I was a teen reading it the first time. Pournelle was a relentlessly shitty human being.

I read Alas, Babylon so long ago I don’t remember anything about it at all, but I’m sure it would dismay me.

As for changing perceptions, watch that Eddie Murphy comedy routine you laughed your ass off at in the 80s.

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