Day Eighty-Four

6/23

The Book: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

ISBN: 978-0-441-79034-0

Suggested By: Te Norman

Where: Home

When: 2-2:45P

Music: None

Company: Alone

Pages: 112-167 (55)

The Lead In: Eh, let’s just get on with it.

The 411 on the 55: Michael is learning more about the world from all his reading and becoming “more human” every day. The house is invaded by cops to arrest them all, but Michael makes them all disappear. Just before a second wave of cops gets there, the president is located on the phone and agrees to meet with them.

Line of the Day: “I don’t grok your answer.” pg 140 (the most annoying word in the book, over and over and over again)

Fact on the Fiction: “To grok is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land. In Heinlein's view of quantum theory, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed.” Wikipedia