Haha okay that tracks. I haven’t read much Heinlein but I remember being very confused at the end of Time for the Stars when his brother’s granddaughter was like “Hi uncle time-dilation with pop-pop’s DNA. Welcome back to Earth. We’re getting married now.”
“Sorry, what?”
“I grew up trading your thoughts. It’s not incest if you’re psychic.”
My mother got me The Secret once as a gift. The Secret is one of two things: irrational bullshit or dangerous black magic. (It’s the first one)
Peter Beagle for decades thought the last unicorn was a flop. He got almost no royalties. Then the rights reverted to him like 15 years ago. Then he went on a screening tour. When he did it, he had no idea the theaters would sell out. Q&A with tears and everything. We met him, he was so tired but still signing anything you wanted for free. Then the tour organizer ripped him off. (I got bad vibes from that guy, he was like a used car salesman)
There is an online artist alliance now to protect him from exploitation.
In half life, in the 90s, I was in an elevator with 2 scientists. I kept them alive because they would randomly heal me between fights. But when the door opened they would really into a laser trip and activate a turret to kill me. Reloaded over and over.
Finally I breast one of them to death with the crowbar.
The other one started cowering and begging me not to hurt him. I felt sick.