THE RIGHTEOUS STUFF: THOUGHTS ON “THE DA VINCI CODE” May 18, 2006
By L. Neil Smith <lneil@lneilsmith.com>
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and The Libertarian Enterprise
May 18, 2006
I love a good flap.
Author Dan Brown, moviemaker Ron Howard, and actor Tom Hanks (among others) are giving us a great one, with a whole lot of help from religious lunatics and enemies of free expression all over the world.
In case you’ve been hermetically sealed in a cryogenic flask for the past six months or so, what I’m talking about here is a novel — and, more importantly in this case, …
THE DEVIL IN DETAILS
THE DEVIL IN DETAILS
By L. Neil Smith <lneil@lneilsmith.com>
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May 18, 2006
In art, a “detail” is some little portion of a larger work — one corner of a painting, for example — that seems to tell a story, or have a life of its own. The cover of the Tor paperback edition of my novel Bretta Martyn, for example, is a detail from a piece of “stock art” my publisher had lying around somewhere. I’ve become very fond of it.
I seem increasingly doomed to write books …
SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE May 5, 2006
SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE
By L. Neil Smith <lneil@lneilsmith.com>
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MAY 05, 2006
On my computer desktop at the moment — where one is likelier to find pictures of beautiful young females in various states of undress — I have a photograph of an exceedingly handsome weapon I can never own.
nra.nationalfirearms.museum/tour/graphics/1907 Savage.jpg
It breaks my heart.
Only thirty or so of these weapons were manufactured 99 years ago, and perhaps ten remain. It’s the Savage Model of 1907, the only other pistol to survive …