A good line, yet I can’t help there’s a little something pointed at our fancy thespian. Every man is entitled to elect the time and manner of his own destruction”. Our protagonist is the actor Lorenzo, a man whose narrative voice is immediately appealing partially because of how strongly defined it is, and in part because you can’t help but suspect Heinlein is having a go at a certain class of refined folks who project erudition yet are facile beyond belief take the following quote, upon our protagonist observing a pair of new acquaintances almost come to blows: “I had no thought of interfering. His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among the peasants. If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he’s a spaceman. The first sci-fi novel I ever read by Robert A.
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