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[gfish]

"I've never been prejudiced in my life," said Sharon Fleming, 69, the wife of a retired coal miner, who spends hours at the union hall calling voters on behalf of Obama. "My niece married a black, and I don't have a problem with it. Now, I wouldn't want a mixed marriage for my daughter, but I'm voting for Obama."

Barrayar is a metaphor for America, isn't it? I can't believe I didn't see that before.

Comments

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Barryar?

[noumignon.livejournal.com]

It's a reference to some SF novel so obscure I thought it was just a misspelling. Even if you went to the Wikipedia page for Barrayar, you wouldn't know what he was talking about, I still don't.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

...actually it's a reference to a series of around twenty SF novels and short stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga).

I guess that's obscure compared to *some* authors...

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Aye, that it be!

[patoadam]

In the article vixyish links to below, see "Shards of Honor". The hero and heroine of that novel have a mixed marriage: they are from different planets, at war with each other.

(A little learning is a dangerous thing. I have only read a couple of the Barrayar novels, so it is possible that gfish means something else.)