(urth) "Sci-Fi’s Difficult Genius", Peter Bebergal

[Jeffery Wilson clueland.com]

On 4/26/2015 12:56 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Could well be. I might have guessed "Hebrew propaganda" but only out of
> cynicism, not out of any actual knowledge.

That's a part of it; the David and Goliath metaphor is built into our 
culture and of course Goliath was champion of the Philistines. IIRC this 
was also used to mean uncultured readers by a 19thC literary magazine, 
but I can't locate the reference just now.


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A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
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