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      Introduction to the Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
          Of all the memorable characters created in the works of 
      Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long, the immortal, stands out beyond 
      the rest.  Lazarus first appeared in Methuselah's Children in 
      1941, the central character of that novel which helped to 
      establish the Golden Age of science fiction in Astounding 
      magazine, and to establish Heinlein's future history series as a 
      pinnacle of achievement in science fiction down to the present.  
      But Heinlein's fans had to wait thirty years, until the 
      publication of Time Enough for Love, for Lazarus to return to 
      center stage.
          Heinlein's future history, the massive series of stories and 
      novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and Orphans of the 
      Sky, was not completed until the appearance of Time Enough for 
      Love, the longest and most highly developed of all Heinlein's 
      novels, in which Lazarus Long, the oldest living member of the 
      human race, lives and travels through time and space and unifies 
      the great series.
          Lazarus will never die.  Humanity's dream of immortality is 
      embodied in this wily lovable character who is, most of all, 
      wise.  His experience, over the thousands of years of his life, 
      his continued zest for life, his ironic appreciation of the 
      successes and failures of human society make his observation in 
      his notebooks, originally published as interludes in Heinlein's 
      huge novel of eternal life, essential reading.  And the notebooks 
      of Lazarus Long are entertaining.  From the smallest details of 
      daily fife to over-arching abstractions on the nature of the 
      human condition, Lazarus' comments are acute, lively and 
      intelligent.
          So here are The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (alias Woodrow 
      Wilson Smith; Mr. Justice Lenox; Corporal Ted Bronson; Proscribed 
      Prisoner No. 83M2742; His Serenity Seraphin Above; et al. ad 
      infinitum) - oldest living member of the human race by virtue of 
      a unique set of chromosomes, clonal and other rejuvenation 
      techniques, and a finely tuned sense of rational self-interest - 
      who has pioneered eight planets, survived at least one lynch mob 
      and many wives, fought in fifteen interstellar wars, made and 
      lost numerous fortunes, and fathered a progeny which numbers in 
      the billions.  Read them for sheer enjoyment or to ponder their 
      didactic message.
                              Copyright (C) 1973 by Robert A Heinlein
                                 1
               Always store beer in a dark place.
               By the data to date, there is only one animal in 
           the Galaxy dangerous to man - man himself.  So he must 
           supply his own indispensable competition.  He has no 
           enemy to help him.
               Men are more sentimental than women.  It blurs 
           their thinking.
               Certainly the game is rigged.  Don't let that stop 
           you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
               Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until 
           proved innocent.
               Always listen to experts.  They'll tell you what 
           can't be done, and why.  Then do it.
               Get a shot off fast.  This upsets him long enough 
           to let you make your second shot perfect.
               If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not 
           science; it is opinion.
               It has long been known that one horse can run 
           faster than another - but which one?  Differences are 
           crucial.
               A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated.  But an 
           authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight.  
           Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she 
           deserved.
               Delusions are often functional.  A mother's 
           opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, 
           goodness et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning 
           them at birth.
               Most "scientists" are bottle washer and button 
           sorters.
                                 2
               A "pacifist male" is a contradiction in terms.  
           Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they 
           simply assume false colors.  When the wind changes, 
           they hoist the Jolly Roger.
               Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's 
           breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look 
           lived in and happy.
               A generation which ignores history has no past - 
           and no future.
               A poet who reads his verse in public may have other 
           nasty habits.
               What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
               Small change can often be found under seat 
           cushions.
               History does not record anywhere at any time a 
           religion that has any rational basis.  Religion is a 
           crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the 
           unknown without help.  But, like dandruff, most people 
           do have a religion and spend time and money on it and 
           seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with 
           it.
               It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles 
           being too tired.
               If you don't like yourself, you can't like other 
           people.
               Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.  
           Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him our 
           friend.  If not, you can kill him without hate - and 
           quickly.
               A motion to adjourn is always in order.
                                 3
               No state has an inherent right to survive through 
           conscript troops and in the long run, no state ever 
           has.  Roman matrons used to say to their sons:  "Come 
           back with your shield, or on it."  Later on, this 
           custom declined.  So did Rome.
               Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have 
           legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most 
           amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" 
           fighting it out for second and third place.
               Cheops' Law:  Nothing ever gets built on schedule 
           or within budget.
               It is better to copulate then never.
               All societies are based on rules to protect 
           pregnant women and young children.  All else is 
           surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly 
           which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to 
           preserve this prime function.  As racial survival is 
           the only universal morality, no other basic is 
           possible.  Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on 
           any foundation other than "Women and children first!" 
           is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.  
           Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) 
           have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep on 
           trying.
               All men are created unequal.
               Money is a powerful aphrodisiac.  But flowers work 
           almost as well.
               A brute kills for pleasure.  A fool kills from 
           hate.
               There is only one way to console a widow.  But 
           remember the risk.
               When the need arises - and it does - you must be 
           able to shoot your own dog.  Don't farm it out - that 
           doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
                                 4
               Everything in excess!  To enjoy the flavor of life, 
           take big bites.  Moderation is for monks.
               It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead 
           lion, but is is better still to be a live lion.  And 
           usually easier.
               One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
               Sex should be friendly.  Otherwise stick to 
           mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
               Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god 
           superior themselves.  Most gods have the manners and 
           morals of a spoiled child.
               Never appeal to a man's "better nature."  He may 
           not have one.  Invoking his self-interest gives you 
           more leverage.
               Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
               You can have peace. Or you can have freedom.  Don't 
           ever count on having both at once.
               Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or 
           hungry.  N.B.:  Circumstances can force your hand.  So 
           think ahead!
               Place your clothes and weapons where you can find 
           them in the dark.
               An elephant:  A mouse built to government 
           specifications.
               A committee is a life form with six or more legs 
           and no brain.
                                 5
               Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition 
           of man.  Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded 
           - here and there, now and then - are the work of an 
           extremely small minority, frequently despised, often 
           condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-
           thinking people.  Whenever this tiny minority is kept 
           from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out 
           of a society, the people then slip back into abject 
           poverty.
               This is known as "bad luck."
               In a mature society, "civil servant" is 
           semantically equal to "civil master."
               When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, 
           social collapse is not far away.  It is time to go 
           elsewhere.  The best thing about space travel is that 
           it made it possible to go elsewhere.
               A woman is not property, and husbands who think 
           otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
               The second best thing about space travel is that 
           the distances involved make war very difficult, usually 
           impractical, and almost always unnecessary.  This is 
           probably a loss for most people, since war is our 
           race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose 
           and color to dull and stupid lives.  But it is a great 
           boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he 
           must - never for sport.
               A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more 
           gametes.  This may be the purpose of the universe.
                                 6
               There are hidden contradictions in the minds of 
           people who "love Nature" while deploring the 
           "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 
           'Nature.'"  The obvious contradiction lies in their 
           choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts 
           are not part of "Nature" - but beavers and their dams 
           are.  But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-
           facie absurdity.  In declaring his love for a beaver 
           dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his 
           hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of 
           men) the "Naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race 
           - i.e., his own self-hatred.
               In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is 
           understandable; they are such a sorry lot.  But hatred 
           is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and 
           contempt are the most they rate.
               As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, 
           and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have.  
           Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up 
           of men and women - it strikes me as a fine arrangement 
           and perfectly "natural."
               Believe it or not, there were "Naturists" who 
           opposed the first flight to old Earth's Moon as being 
           "unnatural" and a "despoiling of Nature."
               "No man is an island -" Much as we may feel and act 
           as individuals, our race is a single organism, always 
           growing and branching - which must be pruned regularly 
           to be healthy.  This necessity need not be argued; 
           anyone with eyes can see that any organism which grows 
           without limit always dies in its own poisons.  The only 
           rational question is whether pruning is best done 
           before for after birth.
               Being an incurable sentimentalist I favor the 
           former of these methods - killing makes me queasy, even 
           when it's a case of "He's dead and I'm alive and that's 
           the way I wanted it to be."
               But this may be a matter of taste.  Some shamans 
           think that is is better to be killed in a war, or to 
           die in childbirth, or to starve in misery, than never 
           to have lived at all.  They may be right.
               But I don't have to like it - and I don't.
               Democracy is based on the assumption that a million 
           men are wiser than one man.  How's that again? I missed 
           something.
               Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man 
           is wiser than a million men.  Let's play that over 
           again, too.  Who decides?
                                 7
               Any government will work if authority and 
           responsibility are equal and coordinate.  This does not 
           insure "good" government; it simply insures that it 
           will work.  But such governments are rare - most people 
           want to run things but want no part of the blame.  This 
           used to be called the "backseat-driver syndrome."
               What are the facts?  Again and again and again - 
           what are the facts?  Shun wishful thinking, ignore 
           divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," 
           avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never 
           mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are 
           the facts, and to how many decimal places?  You pilot 
           always into an unknown future; facts are your single 
           clue.  Get the facts!
               Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through 
           education, or by legislation.  Stupidity is not a sin, 
           the victim can't help being stupid.  But stupidity is 
           the only universal capital crime;  the sentence is 
           death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out 
           automatically and without pity.
               God in omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - 
           it says so right here on the label.  If you have a mind 
           capable of believing all three of these divine 
           attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain 
           for you.  No checks, please.  Cash and in small bills.
               Courage is the complement of fear.  A man who is 
           fearless cannot be courageous.  (He is also a fool.)
               The two highest achievements of the human mind are 
           the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty."  Whenever 
           these twin concepts fall into disrepute - get out of 
           there fast!  You may possibly save yourself, but it is 
           too late to save that society.  It is doomed.
               People who go broke in a big way never miss any 
           meals.  It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who 
           must tighten his belt.
               The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with 
           its credibility.  And vice versa.
                                 8
               Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not 
           fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who 
           has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes 
           in the house.
               Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication 
           to avoid excessive wear.  Honorifics and formal 
           politeness provide lubrication where people rub 
           together.  Often the very young, the untraveled, the 
           naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as 
           "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to 
           use them.  No matter how "pure" their motive, they 
           thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work 
           too well at best.
               A human being should be able to change a diaper, 
           plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a 
           building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a 
           wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give 
           orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze 
           a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a 
           tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.  
           Specialization is for insects.
               The more you love, the more you can love - and the 
           more intensely you love.  Nor is there any limit on how 
           many you can love.  If a person had time enough, he 
           could love all of that majority who are decent and 
           just.
               Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free 
           of any possibility of wrongdoing - and you don't have 
           to go home in the cold.  But it's lonely.
               Beware of altruism.  It is based on self-deception, 
           the root of all evil.
               If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," 
           examine your motives and root out that self-deception.  
           Then if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
                                 9
               The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has 
           ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, 
           Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the 
           saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by 
           their payers, and becomes petulant if He does not 
           receive this flattery.  Yet this absurd fantasy, 
           without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the 
           expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive 
           industry in all history.
               The second most preposterous notion is that 
           copulation is inherently sinful.
               Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed 
           of - but do it in private and wash your hands 
           afterwards.
               $100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded 
           quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than 
           $100,000,000 - by which time it will be worth nothing.
               Dear, don't bore him with trivia or burden him with 
           your past mistakes.  The happiest way to deal with a 
           man is never to tell him anything he does not need to 
           know.
               Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her 
           clothes and does her whorish best.  At other times you 
           can be as modest and dignified as your persona 
           requires.
               Everybody lies about sex.
               If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim 
           they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have 
           invented the amazing nonsense called "behaviorist 
           psychology."  So they are wrong from scratch - as 
           clever and as wrong as phlogiston chemists.
               The shamans are forever yacking abut their snake-
           oil "miracles."  I prefer the Real McCoy - a pregnant 
           woman.
               If the universe has any purpose more important than 
           topping a woman you love and making a baby with her 
           hearty help, I've never heard of it.
                                 10
               Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and 
           keep it Wholly.
               A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an 
           "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
               Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
               There is no such thing as "social gambling."  
           Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out 
           and eat it - or you're a sucker.  If you don't like 
           this choice - don't gamble.
               When the ship lifts, all bills are paid.  No 
           regrets.
               The first time I was a drill instructor I was too 
           inexperienced for the job - the things I taught those 
           lads must have got some of them killed.  War is too 
           serious a matter to be taught by the inexperienced.
               A competent and self-confident person is incapable 
           of jealousy in anything.  Jealousy is invariably a 
           symptom of neurotic insecurity.
               Money is the sincerest of all flattery.
               Women love to be flattered.
               So do men.
               You live and learn.  Or you don't live long.
               Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality 
           with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty 
           end of the stick.  What they are and what they can do 
           makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is 
           to demand special privileges, all the traffic will 
           bear.  They should never settle merely for equality.  
           For women, "equality" is a disaster.
               Peace is an extension of war by political means.  
           Plenty of elbowroom is pleasanter - and much safer.
                                 11
               One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.  
           "Supernatural" is a null word.
               The phrase "we (I)(you) simply must -" designates 
           something that need not be done.  "That goes without 
           saying" is a red warning.  "Of course" means you had 
           best check it yourself.  These small-change cliches and 
           others like them, when read correctly, are reliable 
           channel markers.
               Do not handicap your children by making their lives 
           easy.
               Rub her feet.
               If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who 
           can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort 
           it if you do.  Be patient and you'll give birth to it 
           when the time is ripe.  Learn to wait.
               Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs 
           - sex especially.  When they are growing up, they are 
           nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any 
           invasion of their privacy.  Oh, sure, they'll make 
           mistakes - but that's their business, not yours.  (You 
           made your own mistakes, did you not?)
               Never understate the power of human stupidity.
               Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she 
           is not.
               If you are part of a society that votes, then do 
           so.  There may be no candidates and no measures you 
           want to vote for . . . but there are certain to be ones 
           you want to vote against.  In case of doubt, vote 
           against.  By this rule you will rarely go wrong.
               If this is too blind for your taste, consult some 
           well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask 
           his advice.  Then vote the other way.  This enables you 
           to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without 
           spending the enormous amount of time on it that 
           intelligent exercise of franchise requires.
                                 12
               Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage:  Pay 
           cash or do without.  Interest charges not only eat up a 
           household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic 
           felicity.
               Those who refuse to support and defend a state have 
           no claim to protection by that state.  Killing an 
           anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as 
           "murder" in a legalistic sense.  The offense against 
           the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons 
           inside city limits, " or "Creating a traffic hazard," 
           or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.
               However, the state may reasonably place a closed 
           season on these exotic asocial animals whenever they 
           are in danger of becoming extinct.  An authentic buck 
           pacifist has rarely been seen off Earth, and it is 
           doubtful that any have survived the trouble there . . . 
           regrettable, as they had the biggest mouths and the 
           smallest brains of any of the primates.
               The small-mouthed variety of anarchist has spread 
           through the Galaxy at the very wave front of the 
           Diaspora; there is no need to protect them.  But they 
           often shoot back.
               Another ingredient for a happy marriage:  Budget 
           the luxuries first!
               And still another - See to that she has her own 
           desk - then keep your hands off it!
               And another - in a family argument, if it turns out 
           you are right - apologize at once!
               "God split himself into a myriad parts that he 
           might have friends."  This may not be true, but it 
           sounds good - and is no sillier than any other 
           theology.
               To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the 
           ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
               Does history record any case in which the majority 
           was right?
               When the fox gnaws - smile!
                                 13
               A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby 
           feels qualified to judge the work of creative men.  
           There is logic in this, he is unbiased - he hates all 
           creative people equally.
               Money is truthful.  If a man speaks of his honor, 
           make him pay cash.
               Never frighten a little man.  He'll kill you.
               Only a sadistic scoundrel - or a fool - tells the 
           bald truth on social occasions.
               This sad little lizard told me that he was a 
           brontosaurus on his mother's side.  I did not laugh; 
           people who boast of ancestry often have little else to 
           sustain them.  Humoring them costs nothing and adds to 
           happiness in a world in which happiness is always in 
           short supply.
               In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
               To be "matter of fact" about the world is to 
           blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the 
           real world is strange and wonderful.
               The difference between science and the fuzzy 
           subjects is that science requires reasoning, while 
           those other subjects merely require scholarships.
               Copulation is spiritual in essence - or it is 
           merely friendly exercise.  On second thought, strike 
           out "merely."  Copulation is not "merely" - even when 
           it is just a happy pastime for two strangers.  But 
           copulation at its spiritual best is so much more than 
           physical coupling that it is different in kind as well 
           as in degree.
               The saddest feature of homosexuality is not that it 
           is "wrong" or "sinful" or even that it can't lead to 
           progeny - but that it is more difficult to reach 
           through it this spiritual union.  Not impossible - but 
           the cards are stacked against it.
                                 14
               Touch is the most fundamental sense.  A baby 
           experiences it, all over, before he is born and long 
           before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and 
           no human ever ceases to need it.  Keep your children 
           short on pocket money - but long on hugs.
               Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
               The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
               Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at 
           tax collectors - and miss.
               The profession of shaman has many advantages.  It 
           offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work 
           in the dreary, sweaty sense.  In most societies it 
           offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to 
           other men.  But it is hard to see how a man who has 
           been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of 
           joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in 
           taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one 
           to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any 
           other con man.
               But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.
               A whore should be judged by the same criteria as 
           other professionals offering services for pay - such as 
           dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, 
           etc.  Is she professionally competent?  Does she give 
           good measure?  Is she honest with her clients?
               It is possible that the percentage of honest and 
           competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and 
           much higher than that of lawyers.  And enormously 
           higher than that of professors.
               Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; 
           this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby 
           gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and 
           rainbows.
               Have you noticed how much they look like orchids?  
           Lovely!
               Expertise in one field does not carry over into 
           other fields.  But experts often think so.  The 
           narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they 
           are to think so.
                                 15
               Never try to outstubborn a cat.
               Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the 
           windmills.
               Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way 
           again.
               Waking a person unnecessarily should not be 
           considered a capital crime.  For a first offense, that 
           is.
               "Go to hell!" or other insult direct is all the 
           answer a snoopy question rates.
               The correct way to punctuate a sentence that 
           starts: "Of course it is none of my business but -" is 
           to place a period after the word "but."  Don't use 
           excessive force in supplying such moron with a period.  
           Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is 
           bound to get you talked about.
               A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman 
           who builds up his morale.  After a while he realizes 
           that she is beautiful - he just hadn't noticed it at 
           first.
               A skunk is better company than a person who prides 
           himself on being "frank."
               "All's fair in love and war" - what a contemptible 
           lie!
               Beware of the "Black Swan" fallacy.  Deductive 
           logic is tautological; there is no way to get a new 
           truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as 
           readily as true ones.  If you fail to remember this, it 
           can trip you - with perfect logic.  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 Soon enough you will know.  So why fret about it?
               "I came, I saw, she conquered."  (The original 
           Latin seems to have been garbled.)
               Don't try to have the last word.  You might get it.
                                         Lazarus Long
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