I haven’t read the books and I don’t know much about Heinlein, so I can’t judge this myself, but I’ve heard Lazarus Long described as an Author Avatar several times, such that sayings attributed to him may as well be attributed to Heinlein.
While you may trust your own judgment in this case, do we want to promote a general rule that any quote can be attributed to someone as long as they “may as well” have said it?
— Lazarus Long (in Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein)
Spider Robinsson usually says that in his podcast. And it was posted here a few days ago as a Robinsson quote. How sure are you of your attribution?
I looked it up; it’s from Lazarus Long in “Time Enough For Love”.
It still wasn’t technically said by Heinlein, then.
I haven’t read the books and I don’t know much about Heinlein, so I can’t judge this myself, but I’ve heard Lazarus Long described as an Author Avatar several times, such that sayings attributed to him may as well be attributed to Heinlein.
While you may trust your own judgment in this case, do we want to promote a general rule that any quote can be attributed to someone as long as they “may as well” have said it?
Fair enough, I’ll edit the post.
Thanks.