FarmerTan Member Interview
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Your current avatar is far from a Disney Princess, but it's hard to make out who it is with the snow on top of the head. Is that Saint Maxillian Kolbe?
I broke out laughing after reading this. Thanks for that.
That is from a paperback copy of a Robt. Heinlein book. I think it's "Waldo and Magic, Inc." two short stories put together in one book. Probably both originally published in serial form in magazines.
Both were good reads as I recall!
Halley's comet dropped Mark Twain on Earth during its 1835 visit. Its next apparition in 1910 would take him away again.
Just getting caught up reading these great interviews.
This was one of the more comical ones.
Thanks Dave for providing us with more of your humor!
This was one of the more comical ones.
Thanks Dave for providing us with more of your humor!
And there I was, trying to be mostly serious.
Honestly, I don't recall what I wrote...
Which begs the question: can someone with early dementia possibly fail a lie detector test?
Thanks for the interview. Nice to know more about you.
Thank you for caring enough to read about me.
I'm not as shallow as I seem, am I?
Ok, I am actually pretty shallow....
If he knows he has dementia ... can he possibly pass?
Interesting question... I KNOW I have slipped a bit.... Short term memory is really bad now, but never was great .... I really DO have a leaking brane, diagnosed at 50ish, not symptomatic at the time, but not something that should happen until 65ish, so I wasn't real pleased with the diagnosis... I'm on a very specific blood thinner that I can't go off of, ever: Coumadin. Been on that for 15+ years.....
Which is a blessing, as it's made me TRY not to have my last werds be something "jerkish".... so I do bite my tongue more.
Lol, having a kill switch in my head makes me live more funnly, to be honest.
As I understand it ... thin ice alert here, but still ... the lie detector doesn't actually detect lies per se, but detects the awareness of not having told the complete truth ... detects the nervousness of someone who realises that his answer is not fully accurate.
So, someone who knows he has dementia, and while trying his best to answer honestly, would still be beset with the gnawing doubt that he had forgotten the "other details" that would render his answer ... intended to be honest and accurate ... inaccurate and technically deceitful.
Blissful ignorance is the best defence to the Lie Detector.
My being amoral, or slightly sociopathic would probably help more then... Or being a compulsive liar couldn't hurt?
Anyone who likes Heinlein and Arko can't be all bad... But when it comes to the stew that is B&B, Mr Tan is one of the key spices. Keep on keepin' on, Brother Dave. AA
Thank you my friend. I just donts know any other way to be!
AA
I SO BADLY want to comment on that "key spices" phrase that you used, but I would NEVER purposefully ruin the ending of a certain book..... Do you know what I'm referring to, friend @Ad Astra ?
AA
Did you ever wish you could write like RAH? In my opinion, a once in a lifetime writer, up there with Steinbeck, Twain, maybe oh.... brane leak kicked in....he wrote Carrie, he was hit by a car walking in Maine I believe. But some of his stuff was just too.....clunky, almost like his dog would have done him a favor by eating it.
Don't ever get brane leaks! You'll be amazed at what you won't remember.
Steven King. No, RAH was a way better writer... IMO.I have not read everything that Heinlein wrote, though.
Need to reread Rocketship Galileo. Nazis on the moon, defeated by.... Well, not going to give it away!
Or Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
Or The Cat That Walked Through Walls.
AA
Been working my way through the member interviews and yours did not disappoint. Nicely done. 
Just now found this! Great interview with a wonderful gent! Thanks!!
