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<blockquote data-quote="leoorionis" data-source="post: 3846797" data-attributes="member: 56581">Hello!&nbsp; I just picked up Harry Turtledove's &quot;The Disunited States of America&quot; and found a similar quote in it.&nbsp; I cracked up, because I just finished re-reading Robert A. Heinlein's classic 1956 novel, &quot;The Door into Summer&quot;.&nbsp; I believe that it's the source of the phrase, &quot;subflexive fasarta&quot;, and that Harry Turtledove, who's a fan as well as an author, is indulging himself in an inside joke.&nbsp; The Heinlein quote is:I've thought about what could be done with time travelcommercially if it were declassified -- making short jumps,setting up machinery to get back, taking along components.&nbsp; Butsomeday you'd make one jump too many and not be able to set up foryour return because it's not time to railroad.&nbsp; Somethingsimple, like a special alloy, could whip you.&nbsp; And there is thattruly awful hazard of not knowing which way you are going.&nbsp; Imaginewinding up at the court of Henry VIII with a load of subflexivefasartas intended for the twenty-fifth century.&nbsp; Being becalmed inthe horse latitudes would be better.This quote is from Chapter 12 of &quot;Door into Summer&quot;. -- Leo</blockquote>

[QUOTE="leoorionis, post: 3846797, member: 56581"] Hello! I just picked up Harry Turtledove's "The Disunited States of America" and found a similar quote in it. I cracked up, because I just finished re-reading Robert A. Heinlein's classic 1956 novel, "The Door into Summer". I believe that it's the source of the phrase, "subflexive fasarta", and that Harry Turtledove, who's a fan as well as an author, is indulging himself in an inside joke. The Heinlein quote is: I've thought about what could be done with time travel commercially if it were declassified -- making short jumps, setting up machinery to get back, taking along components. But someday you'd make one jump too many and not be able to set up for your return because it's not time to railroad. Something simple, like a special alloy, could whip you. And there is that truly awful hazard of not knowing which way you are going. Imagine winding up at the court of Henry VIII with a load of subflexive fasartas intended for the twenty-fifth century. Being becalmed in the horse latitudes would be better. This quote is from Chapter 12 of "Door into Summer". -- Leo [/QUOTE]

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