Book Note: Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (#3)

This note does not contain major spoilers for the book.

Quick reread.

It's very hard not to read a lot of at least opinion into the story of the man too lazy to fail—David Lamb, going through the Naval Academy. Heinlein did, too. Lamb fenced. Heinlein fenced. Heinlein and Lamb also worked in aviation engineering later on (Heinlein didn't fly). And it expresses very negative opinions about the treatment of "plebes" by upperclassmen; in areas that, many years after this was written, became something of a national scandal even.