Talk:The Demolished Man

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I created this stub so that the novel will show up in the list of science fiction novels. The content is just copied from the Alfred Bester article, sorry if this isn't correct procedure. -A.Miller --12.216.16.110 23:27, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Einstein/Eisenstein?

... an eyeball floating in a stein; (an eye in a stein -> eye in stein -> Einstein)

Phonetically, that sounds a lot more to me like "Eisenstein" than "Einstein", but I haven't read the book so don't know how the allusion is spelled out; are fans of the book sure he wasn't referring to the filmmaker rather than the physicist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by A. Swearengen (talk • contribs) 13:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

What part of "an" do you not understand? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.171 (talk) 21:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

In the book Einstein is explicitly stated to be the answer. Leushenko (talk) 23:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Phonetically? Where's the /z/ or [z]?

• eye in stein   -> Einstein
• eyes in stein -> Eisenstein

No plural on "eye", ∴ no "s", ∴ no [z], ∴ no Eisenstein, ∴ Einstein. Q.E.D.--Thnidu (talk) 19:14, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

"@kins"

The use of "@" in @kins (Atkins) predates Internet e-mail by at least 18 years... AnonMoos (talk) 06:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

But the use of "@" for "at" in quoting prices -- "5 apples @ 50¢" = "5 apples at 50¢ apiece" -- predates "@kins" by at least 52 years.

The Underwood Typewriter Company included the symbol on the keyboard of "Underwood No. 5" in 1900, and it was included on subsequent typewriters and their successors' keyboards. (@)

--Thnidu (talk) 19:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC) (Dear me, what do they teach them in those schools?)

Dishonest Abe

I got the impression that Lincoln was himself the product of a demolition, and "Dishonest Abe" some vestige of the old criminal personality. Is there any criticism of the book that brings this up? --Starwed (talk) 14:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Freudian

This would benefit from an analysis of the Freudian themes that underlie the understanding of psychology at the time. They form the backbone of story including the desire to kill the father and the sublimated, to the sister, desire to boink the mother. These themes are part of the reason that it was a great work when written and kind of cute/silly now 75.191.151.75 (talk) 08:30, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I find it humorous that a hypocrite with a tag in his profile against censorship would delete this for such a minor issue as not liking the word "boink" rather than addressing the issue raised. 75.191.151.75 (talk) 00:53, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

I'll give you a chance here. First, lay off the personal attack. Second, I can't take your discussion seriously when you're using terms like "boink," which leads me to believe this post is not an honest attempt to improve the article. Finally, unless you have some citations about Freud's theories being an influence on book, there's no reason to bring it up here. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 14:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Okay, so he wanted to FUCK his sister. Happy now? Do you want to boink YOUR sister? Or just FUCK your mom?

"Hypocrite" in this context is a perfectly adequate term for someone "with a tag in his profile against censorship".— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.129 (talk • contribs) 08:47, February 22, 2011

Wyg&

The ampersand is a ligature of et (Latin for and), so I always read that as "Wyget", not "Wygand".

Can someone provide a reliable source for the current version? ---- 91.10.15.208 (talk) 00:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)