In article <474bc004$0$10297$815e3792@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, on Mon, 26 Nov
2007 23:58:13 -0700, Hitch <hitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> BUT, that hardly excuses BH; I mean, riding one's father's coattails is
one
> thing...riding them in such a blatantly self-aggrandizing way, and then
> dimini****ng your father's legacy in such a derisive fa****on...well, that
is
> JUST hellspawn-ish.
"The child of the Great Writer is a familiar stereotype--petulant brat,
fattening on his father's royalties, stomping his miserable adolescent
boots over his father's reputation."
--Frederic Pohl, in introduction to a story in Star Science Fiction no.
6, 1959.
I came across this the other week, and immediately thought of someone.
--
Juho Julkunen
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