Re: Colossal in-joke
- From: djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt)
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:13:25 GMT
In article <Ignhi.5075$vi5.1872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In Panshin's _The Thurb Revolution_, an author is confronted by a very short
man: shorter than Napoleon even.
"Are you Admiral Beagle?"
"Yes, I am."
Morgenstern looked him up and down. "You're not so much."
("You're not so much" was, famously, the way Harlan Ellison dismissed Isaac
Asimov at their first meeting. Asimov would often describe Ellison as
"shorter than Napoleon even".
Not hard. Napoleon was IIRC about 5'8", not particularly short
for men of his place and time. Why do we think of him as short?
Because he *acted* like a short guy who's got to prove to
everybody (himself above all) that he is big, tough, and
important. My theory is that he acted like that because he was a
Corsican: a French citizen but not ethnically French and
categorically looked down on.
Oddly, they later became great friends. )
Yes; it is very odd.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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