"Sci-Fi’s Difficult Genius", Peter Bebergal

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 26 Apr 2015, 18:10 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:10:57 -0500
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On 4/26/2015 12:56 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Could well be. I might have guessed "Hebrew propaganda" but only out of
> cynicism, not out of any actual knowledge.

That's a part of it; the David and Goliath metaphor is built into our 
culture and of course Goliath was champion of the Philistines. IIRC this 
was also used to mean uncultured readers by a 19thC literary magazine, 
but I can't locate the reference just now.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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