[TML] Smart Vilani dogs?

[Steve Burchett]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only one I can recall seeing is the one with the wooden sign that
> is (apparently) to be seen as you near the Freehold on a footpath,
> with stuff about having various food and drink for sale, payments
> taken in kind and having "Free Kittens" to give away . . . then the
> little "skull-and-crossed-bones" warning at the bottom against leaving
> the path, because the fields are mined.
>
> That is, the sign implies a stereotypical post-apocalyptic plot . . .
> which is more or less the truth, until about halfway in.


Actually, the description of that sign is in the final pages of the book.

When I read Farnhams Freehold, I was about nine years old, and I took it
completely to heart. It was one of the formative events in my life. Of
course, so were most of Mr. Heinlein's works at the time I read them.

My parents both worked at the time (early '60s) and I was left pretty much
to my own devices and essentially raised myself-- well, I would say Mr.
Heinlein raised me, as I took most of my clues from him.

I am an odd bird, indeed.

Steve