[Dragaera] Dragaera Casting

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Ike Porter wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Howard Brazee wrote:
>> 
>> When I read of his aging, I am reminded a bit about something Roger
>>> Zelazny did - when Roger's character lit up a cigarette was when Roger lit
>>> up a cigarette.
>>> 
>> 
>> I find this very painful to contemplate.  On the other hand, wikipedia says
>> he didn't actually die of lung cancer, so.
>> 
> 
> It was a different time. Men were men and sheep were scared. If you didn't
> smoke, you were a pinko commie queer. A simpler time when men smoked and
> drank while wifey gave birth after walking uphill both ways in the snow to
> the hospital.

Also rebels smoked. If you read period literature, much was communicated by the way a cigarette was lit, held, and smoked. Every pinko commie queer I knew in the 60s smoked. SDS, YAWF, whatever.