NancyL
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Two things from first class:
1. Bog = God in Russian (BTW a popular expression is Bozhe Moy!! = My God!!) (My High School Russian keeps coming in handy.)
2. We're assuming that the world described in this book is our world. I don't think this is a true assumption. For one thing the Wet Firecracker War is described elsewhere in Heinlein's universe as a nuclear war which did not become an all-out-burn-everything conflict. But even leaving aside external references, we shouldn't assume we're in our own universe.
1. Bog = God in Russian (BTW a popular expression is Bozhe Moy!! = My God!!) (My High School Russian keeps coming in handy.)
2. We're assuming that the world described in this book is our world. I don't think this is a true assumption. For one thing the Wet Firecracker War is described elsewhere in Heinlein's universe as a nuclear war which did not become an all-out-burn-everything conflict. But even leaving aside external references, we shouldn't assume we're in our own universe.