From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 12:59:16 MST
Dehede011@aol.com quoted me [mis]quoting Robert Heinlein:
> `What wrong with you apes? You wanna live
> forever?' SARGE SMITH
> Also attributed to Sergeant Day at Belleau Woods, "Come on you
> bastards, you want to live forever?"
I mistyped the start of that citation. `What's', not `What' of course. But I
probably have the wording slightly wrong anyway; it's the epigraph to
STARSHIP TROOPERS, which I don't have handy (and oddly enough the quote's
not googled). Perhaps `C'mon, you apes!'
> The Spike [...] was readily available on special order.
Good grief, *special* order? The damned thing came out in trade paperback
less than a year ago. Paper publishers and their conglomerate distributors
really are running themselves into a hole in the ground.
Thanks for taking the trouble to order it. :)
Damien Broderick
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