A. E. van Vogt Memorial Haiku
Lawrence Person
Golden Age SF scribe meets
final Black Destroyer
van Vogt's Super Slan:
Science Fiction fans had their
tendrils on their can.
General Semantics
And Hubbard's Dianetics:
Lost mind more than once.
A great writer, but
one caught in amber; the field
Just moved beyond him.
van Vogt: "The right to
buy weapons is the right to
be free." Then as now.
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Matthew Hubbard
>
> van Vogt: "The right to
> buy weapons is the right to
> be free." Then as now.
Freedom, Hegel said,
is a moral sense in tune
with society's laws.
I'll take Hegel over van Vogt any day,
MattH
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Matthew Hubbard
>
> In article <38923379...@crl.com>,
> Matthew Hubbard <leof...@crl.com> wrote:
> >Lawrence Person wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> van Vogt: "The right to
> >> buy weapons is the right to
> >> be free." Then as now.
> >
> > Freedom, Hegel said,
> > is a moral sense in tune
> > with society's laws.
>
> reasonable guess about what any society would need or what?
I'm sorry, but all
debate and comments must be
put in haiku form.
Hegel's freedom means
your personal code and _your_
land's laws are the same.
MattH
Nancy Lebovitz
Matthew Hubbard <leof...@crl.com> wrote:
>Lawrence Person wrote:
>
>>
>> van Vogt: "The right to
>> buy weapons is the right to
>> be free." Then as now.
>
> Freedom, Hegel said,
> is a moral sense in tune
> with society's laws.
Did Hegel mean the particular society one is living in or some reasonable
guess about what any society would need or what?
>
>I'll take Hegel over van Vogt any day,
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what worlds we knew then!
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>under torchlit bedcovers
>what worlds we knew then!
Dwarf writing on
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Just good old pulpy fun!
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T. Troy McNemar
Some of us don't know van Vogt.
So, why the haikus?
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In article <38923379...@crl.com>, Matthew Hubbard
<leof...@crl.com> wrote:
> Lawrence Person wrote:
>
> >
> > van Vogt: "The right to
> > buy weapons is the right to
> > be free." Then as now.
>
> Freedom, Hegel said,
> is a moral sense in tune
> with society's laws.
Huckleberry Finn,
morals in conflict with laws,
will never be free.
Simon van Dongen
>In article <38923379...@crl.com>,
>Matthew Hubbard <leof...@crl.com> wrote:
>>Lawrence Person wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> van Vogt: "The right to
>>> buy weapons is the right to
>>> be free." Then as now.
>>
>> Freedom, Hegel said,
>> is a moral sense in tune
>> with society's laws.
>
>Did Hegel mean the particular society one is living in or some reasonable
>guess about what any society would need or what?
Mostly, Hegel meant the particular society *he* was living in. 19th
century Prussia. Hey, if they gave him a professorate, they must be
pretty near perfect.
>>I'll take Hegel over van Vogt any day,
You're welcome to him.
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Eric Berge
wrote:
>Differences in fans,
>Some of us don't know van Vogt.
>So, why the haikus?
Really? Go read
"Dark Destroyer" or "Null-A".
(Haiku, I don't know).
(The proper plural form of "haiku" is "haiku", it being a Japanese
word)
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Scott Taylor
<949182...@bluejo.demon.co.uk>...
> Lightning flash lightspeed
> under torchlit bedcovers
> what worlds we knew then!
Simple haiku formed
Jo Walton explains clearly
pain and joy alike
Worlds far yet near
The future and past are one
Childhood joys return
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Seventeen words for Van is
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David Joseph Greenbaum
<ahas...@not-for-mail.org> inscribed
upon fleeting electrons:
>Oh, no, not haiku(s)!
>Seventeen words for Van is
>Seven-eight-three short!
Long time no hear! Wie gehts?
Ahasuerus
In rec.arts.sf.written David Joseph Greenbaum <dj...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Long time no hear! Wie gehts?
I have been fiendishly busy lately. So many conceptual breakthroughs to
make, so many wars to start, it's not even funny...
Um. We *are* talking about van Vogt, right? :)
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Michael Caldwell
>On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:28:15 -0700, T. Troy McNemar <Tr...@McNemar.com>
>wrote:
>>Differences in fans,
>>Some of us don't know van Vogt.
>>So, why the haikus?
And some who know him
fail to recognise what is
called his genius.
>Really? Go read
>"Dark Destroyer" or "Null-A".
>(Haiku, I don't know).
Any time is time
for ammusing haiku fun,
he said while counting.
>(The proper plural form of "haiku" is "haiku", it being a Japanese
>word)
Cue the Godzilla song for remembering Japanese plurals -
Ooooooo, One godzilla, two godzilla, three godzilla, four;
five godzilla rising from the murky ocean floor.
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in fleeting electrons:
>I have been fiendishly busy lately. So many conceptual
>breakthroughs to make, so many wars to start, it's not
>even funny...
I'll bet. Continuing on into the future saga - I've deeply
immersed myself in late-19th, early 20th century German/Austrian
fiction and literature - early 20th extending to ~1930, with
Joseph Roth.
>Um. We *are* talking about van Vogt, right? :)
Apparently he died. I still have the Weapon Shops of Isher
and the Something of Null-A on my shelf, fresh from when I got
them surplus from my Boy Scout volunteering. Nine years is too
little - more like thirteen. But that didn't scan.
--
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