Hmm. Apparently I’m Doc Smith, he of Lensman and Skylark of Space fame.
I figured I’d be closer to Heinlein, but on the other hand I’m not fascinated by sex in quite the way he was. I’ve always been of the theory, based on my reading of Heinlein, that he and Ginny were up to some fairly weird shit. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; but my wife is all I need, as long as she keeps letting me window-shop. (The same permission is granted back the other way, I might add.)
Although I note that I had only to change “It is morally wrong to silence yourself just so somebody else can talk” to “I’m such a fascinating talker, folks are glad to let me do more of the talking” to change my paradigm to Heinlein. And I don’t really see that much difference in those two statements 🙂
(Thanks to Pej.)
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)