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Time Enough for Love

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Time Enough for Love	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Time Enough For Love is a Speculative Fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973, which fits into his Future History mythology. It is conceptually a sequel to Methuselah's Children and was followed by The Number of the Beast.In the 43rd century AD, Lazarus Long is the oldest living human being by well over a thousand years, thanks to a remarkable genetic heritage and the technology of human rejuvenation. But even a semi-immortal, ornery coot of a man can grow tired of life, and it's long been established in a galactic society of extraordinarily long-lived humans that the right to end one's life when one chooses is as sacred as anything gets.However, Ira Weatheral, the chairman of the Howard Foundation, disagrees, believing that Lazarus' unique store of human wisdom is worth any cost to save. Lazarus makes a deal with him: he will recount tales from his life until he's fully rejuvenated. Within that time, Ira has to come up with something new for him to experience. If he cannot, Ira must agree to let Lazarus die peacefully. Thus begins a kind of reverse-Scheherezade Gambit and a Framing Device for an exploration of vast swathes of Heinlein's universe from the point of view of this near-mythological figure.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })After Lazarus' rejuvenation, the novel abruptly changes tone and becomes a Time Travel adventure, as this is among the various suggestions that his friends come up with for things that he might do. Given the vastness of human history to choose from, he elects to visit his own childhood family in Kansas City, Missouri. But a slight miscalculation or two might well end the career of this interstellar traveler for good.
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Time Enough for Love / int_10605b67	type	Falling into His Arms
Time Enough for Love / int_10605b67	comment	Falling into His Arms: Lazarus catches a girl thrown out from a house on fire.
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Time Enough for Love / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
Time Enough for Love / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: From The Notebooks Of Lazarus Long-
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Time Enough for Love / int_10de0193	type	Time-Travel Romance
Time Enough for Love / int_10de0193	comment	Time-Travel Romance: Initiated in this novel between Lazarus and Maureen, it is picked up and resolved by the sequel, The Number of the Beast.
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Time Enough for Love / int_157c6c4f	type	My Grandson, Myself
Time Enough for Love / int_157c6c4f	comment	My Grandson, Myself: One of the many methods that Howards use to maintain their Masquerade is by posing as their own children or grandchildren, after careful cosmetic aging followed by "death".
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Time Enough for Love / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Time Enough for Love / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Ira Johnson, patriarch of his family, and the greatest single influence on the young Woodrow Wilson Smith, who of course grew up to become Lazarus. He's a doctor, a war veteran, a deadly shot, and a fine chess player. A bit ruined when he turns out to be a jingoistic fool who scorns Lazarus for not signing up to be shot at in Europe.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Time Enough for Love / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Lazarus gets called out on the implausibilities and impossibilities in many of his stories — in particular cases where his recollections don't agree with historical records. He glosses over these by labeling them parables and in any event, he was there and knows better than any historian. Some of the footnotes attached to the Framing Story in the prologue serve as Lampshade Hanging of this. There are also a few cases where the story he will tell will remain very inconsistent between telling or when he gets interrupted. One is a case where he apparently told four stories, he was in his right mind, about the same event, retconning the gun he had used from being a toy to a trusty weapon and the aftereffects of it range from mass death to freedom. The characters in story are quite tired of it.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1a5cae38	type	Love Imbues Life
Time Enough for Love / int_1a5cae38	comment	Love Imbues Life: Lazarus opines that Minerva became self-aware due to Ira lavishing personal attention on her. She claims that her earliest "true" memories are of waiting eagerly for him to speak to her.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1bb1d7df	type	Dismotivation
Time Enough for Love / int_1bb1d7df	comment	Dismotivation: See Brilliant, but Lazy.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Time Enough for Love / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Averted with gusto by Lazarus, although he did go through an asexual phase after getting tired of the mechanical aspects of sex, and before rediscovering love for its own sake — see Everyone Is Related. It's also partly a consequence of the Howard Families' tendency to idolize/fetishize the long-lived, as nearly every female he meets goes delirious over the idea of bearing his children; his genetic pattern is a proven winner to the extreme. Somewhat justified by how the Howard Families were set up: when the Howard Trust was installed, you were considered for membership if you could prove your parents and grandparents (and, maybe, great-grandparents) had a "long" lifespan (usually, over 100 years). While Lazarus was born/alive around the time the Trust was set up, the fact that he didn't need rejuvenation until he was approaching 250 and already was the oldest living human known...
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Time Enough for Love / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
Time Enough for Love / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: Or not, at turns, depending on the mood Lazarus is in. He gets better eventually.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
Time Enough for Love / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: How Lazarus sends letters to his Tertius family (in 4292) from 1916-1917. Envelopes in envelopes, addressed to be opened in turn by future iterations of the Howard trustees.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Time Enough for Love / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Andy Libby was this for Lazarus; the two of them apparently stuck together for hundreds of years, exploring the galaxy.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Time Enough for Love / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The Scheherezade Gambit for Lazarus' memoirs in the first part. In the second part, much of the Time Travel segment is retold through Lazarus' letters that he writes and sends to his Tertius family via Delay Mail.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Averted — The genetically engineered "mules" that Lazarus employs on New Beginnings are intelligent enough to tell you when they need food, water, etc. Some are smart enough to be people in their own right, like Buck, and are mourned as people when they die. Discussed — After Lazarus arrives in 1916, he assists a doctor on the road who is driving one of those "new-fangled" automobiles. The doctor complains that a good horse can be counted on to get itself home without any help from its rider; he misses catching naps while he travels.
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Time Enough for Love / int_1f14978d	comment	Averted — The genetically engineered "mules" that Lazarus employs on New Beginnings are intelligent enough to tell you when they need food, water, etc. Some are smart enough to be people in their own right, like Buck, and are mourned as people when they die.
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Time Enough for Love / int_2084f742	type	New Child Left Behind
Time Enough for Love / int_2084f742	comment	New Child Left Behind: Minerva, Laz, and Lor all sleep with Lazarus prior to his departure to 1916 in an attempt to get pregnant so they'll have Someone to Remember Him By after he "gets his ass shot off".
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Time Enough for Love / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Time Enough for Love / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: It's not at all unusual in a marriage between Howard Families members for spouses to differ in age by centuries.
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Time Enough for Love / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Time Enough for Love / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Lazarus' mother, Maureen. Forced to adopt the illusion of propriety by the times in which she lives, she is about as horny a woman as one could imagine. Lazarus (and by extension, Heinlein) seems to hold the opinion that the cultural ideal of a "good" girl is terribly destructive and should be maintained only for practical reasons, to satisfy the Moral Guardians of one's time. Dora was raised by Helen, Lazarus' sometimes fuck buddy, to be one. Llita might be the epitome of this; Lazarus' main concern is getting Joe to the point where he's fine with his sister/wife getting some on the side, as Lazarus can see it coming a mile away.
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Time Enough for Love / int_26d48b37	comment	Earth That Used to Be Better: Old Earth is frequently referred to as a hellhole by anyone who discusses it, as it's succumbed to horrific overpopulation despite galactic emigration, and said emigration has also drained off its best and brightest. In the story about Lazarus' time with Dora, he's visited by his son Zack, who brought a load of old people from Earth, reporting that a law has been enacted that makes everyone legally dead at age seventy-five; they can't own property, their heirs inherit, and anyone can kill them for the hell of it.
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Time Enough for Love / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Time Enough for Love / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: In Space Is an Ocean style, as interplanetary travel on the Libby drive seems to occur on a scale of weeks to months.
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Time Enough for Love / int_2d407620	type	Undead Tax Exemption
Time Enough for Love / int_2d407620	comment	Undead Tax Exemption: Fully exploited by the Howard families to maintain their Masquerade as ordinary short-lived humans. They find it much easier to do so in pioneering societies where people care less about your paperwork and more about your contributions.
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Time Enough for Love / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Time Enough for Love / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: All Howards have naturally extended lifespans even before rejuvenation therapy takes over and turns it into Really 700 Years Old.
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Time Enough for Love / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Time Enough for Love / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: The mutant mules that Lazarus and Dora work with in their colony have enhanced intelligence; some are near-human level, and can talk.
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Time Enough for Love / int_31b99a18	type	Naming Your Colony World
Time Enough for Love / int_31b99a18	comment	Naming Your Colony World: Tellus Tertius, or "Earth Three", after Lazarus and crew boogie out of Tellus Secundus, or "Earth Two".
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Time Enough for Love / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Time Enough for Love / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: Medical rejuvenation therapy, which consists at its simplest level of replacing the body's entire blood supply with cloned blood, and can go as far as cloned replacements of just about everything — even the brain, with computer support to transfer the memories. Coupled with the Howards' naturally extended lifespans, it makes living forever possible, at least in theory.
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Time Enough for Love / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Time Enough for Love / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Lazarus tells Ira the story of "The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail": one David Lamb, who went to Annapolis because it was easier than farming, and memorized mathematical tables because it was the easiest way of handling the hazing from the upperclassmen - and that's just for starters. Lazarus implies that his laziness was part and parcel of his brilliance, causing him to become more efficient to avoid unnecessary work. Ira also ventures the opinion that David Lamb was a pseudonym of Lazarus', but historical records fail to corroborate either version of the story.
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Time Enough for Love / int_38b2491d	type	The Fog of Ages
Time Enough for Love / int_38b2491d	comment	The Fog of Ages: Lazarus describes the horror and unrelenting frustration that a two thousand year memory creates.
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Time Enough for Love / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Time Enough for Love / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Multiple vague references are made to the "2012 meeting of the Howard families," a gag that started in the previous novel Methuselah's Children. By now, it's an in-universe Noodle Incident; Lazarus is the only one alive who attended the meeting. Ira Weatheral attempts to find out what happened, but Lazarus refuses to discuss it on the grounds that it would just be his version without giving the others a chance to dispute it. Lazarus is even urged to use time travel to go back and record the meeting so everyone will finally know what happened, but he explains that it's not possible because no one would be allowed into the meeting unless their identity was firmly established (and though he's a member, he can't attend as himself since there'd be two of him), and anyone suspicious who tried to get in would likely wind up dead.
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Time Enough for Love / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Time Enough for Love / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: Not Laz/Lor surprisingly, but Lazarus relates a story about how he bought and freed a pair of slaves who are diploid complements of each other. That is, they are twins created by taking exactly half of the chromosome pairs of each parent note (Specifically, intervening after meiosis but before fertilization.) and fusing them with the complementary half of the other. Thus, although technically twin brother and sister from the same parents, they are genetically unrelated to each other and can safely interbreed — and do. Due to completely unrelated circumstances, Lazarus also concludes that they are his own descendants.
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Time Enough for Love / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Time Enough for Love / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Lazarus preaches against blindly accepting cultural social norms, and instead encourages everyone to think for themselves. He also chastises anyone who doesn't blindly accept his beliefs.
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Time Enough for Love / int_403dcfce	type	Immortality Hurts
Time Enough for Love / int_403dcfce	comment	Immortality Hurts: Lazarus lived long and loved well, but the only time he ever truly fell deeply in romantic love with a woman was Dora, an Ephemeral. When she died (at the ripe old age of 90), he stopped wanting to live forever.
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Time Enough for Love / int_41aebb4a	comment	Marilyn Maneuver: While visiting an amusement park, Maureen arranges for Lazarus to get an eyeful by standing over a funhouse air vent when she's certain that nobody else is watching. He observes that she's not wearing bloomers... and that she doesn't dye her hair.
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Time Enough for Love / int_4252627f	type	Determined Homesteader
Time Enough for Love / int_4252627f	comment	Determined Homesteader: On "New Beginnings", Lazarus ends up marrying an ephemeral, Dora, and rather than take her into space with him and see her wither away among immortals, he instead decides to settle a homestead with her, with the full commitment that entails. He initially embarks on the project on an whim, seeing her short lifespan as but a blip in his own, but she teaches him to love like no other woman before or after.
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Time Enough for Love / int_42866088	type	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo
Time Enough for Love / int_42866088	comment	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo: Lazarus Long mentions when he travels back in time to 1917 that he is surprised at the thrill it gives him to see a woman's ankle when it happens to get exposed. He also mentions that he is careful not to let anyone catch him looking.
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Time Enough for Love / int_462eee5d	type	My Own Grampa
Time Enough for Love / int_462eee5d	comment	The back cover blurb of the novel implies a My Own Grampa plot where none such occurs. Although he does sleep with his mother, she's already pregnant at the time and in any event he arrives years after his own birth. On the other hand, his cover story does result in him being taken for his own distant uncle.
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Time Enough for Love / int_493bc214	type	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Time Enough for Love / int_493bc214	comment	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie/Burial in Space: Long tries to give Andrew Libby the cremation he requested, by letting him burn up de-orbiting into Earth. Problem is, he dies on the other side of the galaxy, but thankfully corpses keep well in space. Long sets up the body in an orbit around the planet where Libby died, knowing he can always come back later when it's possible to get to Earth and retrieve the body. Oddly enough someone steals it before he can come back, and even odder it turns out to be Lazarus himself. Time Travel is fun like that. However, in The Number of the Beast, we discover that he steals Libby's corpse a second time so they can recapture his DNA and memories and clone him, this time as a woman, since Libby very helpfully provided XXY sex chromosomes.
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Time Enough for Love / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Time Enough for Love / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Lazarus regards anyone who doesn't fight to win as stupid. And dead, if he goes up against Lazarus. It's certainly one of the ways he's managed to live so long, by being prepared to fight — and fight dirty — at a moment's notice. When he enlists in World War One, his knowledge of vicious fighting styles gets him a reputation as a mercenary on the lam from the French Foreign Legion.
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Time Enough for Love / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Discussed by Lazarus with his Tertius family when he's contemplating Time Travel to the 1920s United States. Laz and Lor in particular want to come with him, but he categorically refuses on the grounds that they have absolutely no idea how to fit in with the "craziness" of the times in question and would end up in jail or murdered in short order. He can go only because he grew up there and knows the customs.
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Time Enough for Love / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Time Enough for Love / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Dora shoots the gun-hand of a pioneer bandit. Lazarus compliments her for making the precisely correct decision in the moment, as even a fatal body shot might have allowed the man to shoot him.
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Time Enough for Love / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Time Enough for Love / int_4d1423b9	comment	Become a Real Boy: The long-term goal of many AI characters is to download themselves into a Wetware Body, most often to experience love. It is accomplished for the first time ever during the Time Skip that sets up the novel's second half. Lazarus is careful to caution Minerva that the actual experience of waking up in a human body is likely to be highly traumatic at first.
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Time Enough for Love / int_501de366	type	Temporal Paradox
Time Enough for Love / int_501de366	comment	Temporal Paradox: Discussed when Lazarus travels back to the 20th century, and ultimately resolved in favor of You Already Changed the Past. However, Lazarus commits a major error in reassuring his 1917 family that, since he's from the future, he'll survive his involvement in World War One, ignoring that this is the second time through from his personal point of view. It bites him in the ass hard. It is revealed in To Sail Beyond the Sunset that Lazarus relates a whole laundry list of future happenings to Maureen during his visit, which allow her to take key actions to save the Howard trust fund from the Great Depression and rescue the first manned spaceflight from bankruptcy. Predestination paradox ahoy!
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Time Enough for Love / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
Time Enough for Love / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Lazarus spends a great deal of his rejuvenation time debating exactly what the word "love" means with his caretakers. He calls it the slipperiest concept in the universe and keeps saying that he "knows it when he sees it", much to their frustration. A sapient computer is motivated to Become a Real Boy to discover physical love, only for Lazarus to point out that she already must understand love even to be considering the idea.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
Time Enough for Love / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: Except Lazarus, oddly. He claims it's due to built-in prejudices from his "Bible Belt upbringing".
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Time Enough for Love / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Time Enough for Love / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: A somewhat ambiguous example. While the Howard Families seem exclusively Caucasian to go by their given names — and likely started out that way in the 19th and 20th centuries — the novel implies the presence of mixed racial types by describing characters with different skin colors, and Lazarus at certain points claims that the issue of race has become moot. In interviews, Heinlein stated that the censorship standards of the time forbade him from making it explicit. At one point, he mentions that the Chinese government forbade interstellar emigration, partially accounting for this.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5969d512	type	Computer Voice
Time Enough for Love / int_5969d512	comment	Computer Voice: Minerva has two voice address modes — an "impersonal" mode, where she is monotone and robotic, and a "personal" mode, where she sounds completely human. She uses the latter more frequently with Lazarus as he grows more comfortable with her.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5a2a2a39	type	The Milky Way Is the Only Way
Time Enough for Love / int_5a2a2a39	comment	The Milky Way Is the Only Way: Intergalactic expeditions are mentioned, but nobody's heard back from them yet. With the technology available, it should in theory be possible to do, especially once it's discovered that the Libby drive can enable Time Travel.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5bb56da	type	Justified
Time Enough for Love / int_5bb56da	comment	Somewhat justified by how the Howard Families were set up: when the Howard Trust was installed, you were considered for membership if you could prove your parents and grandparents (and, maybe, great-grandparents) had a "long" lifespan (usually, over 100 years). While Lazarus was born/alive around the time the Trust was set up, the fact that he didn't need rejuvenation until he was approaching 250 and already was the oldest living human known...
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Time Enough for Love / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Time Enough for Love / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Among Howards, age is typically counted not in years but in rejuvenations, resulting in such anomalies as a thousand-year-old man in a twenty-year-old body.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Time Enough for Love / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Lazarus uses this method of execution on a slave overseer that insists on boarding his vessel. Not exactly an application of super survival thinking on the latter's part.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Time Enough for Love / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Initiated by the young colonist Dora, who falls in love with Long as his ward. He eventually consents and reinvents his identity to switch from her father to her husband, though he's not in love with her just then; he simply sees it as a way to make his foster daughter happy for the few decades she has, which is a short time to him. She ends up being the greatest love of his life.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Time Enough for Love / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Lazarus was born Woodrow Wilson Smith, named for U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. In-Universe, a number of names keep cropping up in Howard Family genealogy, particularly Ira (Ira Howard, Ira Johnson, and Ira Weatheral — the third being named explicitly after the second, and the first two an apparent historical coincidence). There is a Justin Foote in Methuselah's Children and another in Time Enough for Love. This is discussed by the characters, and in 1917, Lazarus is privileged to observe the marriage of his older sister Nancy into the Weatheral family.
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Time Enough for Love / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Time Enough for Love / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Ordinary short-lived humans compared to Howards. Not only do they live a mere pittance of years naturally, but rejuvenation techniques don't work as well for them in the long term. This does lead to a Tear Jerker: against his own personal experience/advice, Lazarus married an 'ordinary' person, and lived with her for decades. Then he was with her when she died of old age...
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Time Enough for Love / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Time Enough for Love / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The narrative jumps some thirteen years between the conclusion of Lazarus' rejuvenation and the arrival of Justin Foote on Tertius. It then jumps another three to five years to when Lazarus leaves on his time trip.
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Time Enough for Love / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Time Enough for Love / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Lazarus discovers, on meeting his mom back in 1917, that he is incredibly horny for her. She, in turn, falls for "Ted Bronson", not knowing that he's her son from the future. Interestingly, the relationship is not consummated until after he reveals the truth. Lazarus' seduction by his Opposite Sex Clones might also count, depending on whether one considers them his sisters or his daughters (he did raise them as the latter). Ira Weatheral and Hamadryad; Galahad says that the latter told him Ira is one of the possible fathers for one of her children.
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Time Enough for Love / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
Time Enough for Love / int_648c3646	comment	Enlightened Self-Interest: Lazarus Long observes, "Never appeal to a man's 'better nature'. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
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Time Enough for Love / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Time Enough for Love / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: The Howard Families tend to be secular, and Lazarus himself is aggressively atheistic. However, there are planets whose populations take religion very seriously and Lazarus has posed successfully as a priest on more than one occasion. He remarks that "faith is for the congregation, Ira. It handicaps a priest."
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Time Enough for Love / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Time Enough for Love / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Since it's a Heinlein book, it's all over the place. Nudism, incest, polyamory, libertarian politics...
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Time Enough for Love / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Time Enough for Love / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Lazarus, in many ways. He's unquestionably an outlet for vast amounts of opining by Heinlein on a variety of subjects, although Heinlein disclaimed this when asked.
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Time Enough for Love / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Time Enough for Love / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: When asked about this, Lazarus opines that the necessary ingredient for turning a merely extraordinarily complex computer into a sapient one is the addition of love.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6a2c0cc6	type	Living Distant Ancestor
Time Enough for Love / int_6a2c0cc6	comment	Living Distant Ancestor: Lazarus to most of Secundus, and a good chunk of the rest of human space.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6a492371	type	Truly Single Parent
Time Enough for Love / int_6a492371	comment	Truly Single Parent: Lazarus, to Laz and Lor.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Time Enough for Love / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Love is, in Lazarus' opinion, the only thing that makes life worth living for thousands of years. He gets in a Title Drop with the observation that the saddest thing about ordinary short-lifers is that they barely have time enough for it. It is also the reason he pities homosexuals. Less because of culturally ingrained perceptions of homosexuality (he was born in 1912, after all), but because he believes that it is so much harder for them to find true love. He goes into detail about two different kinds of love, Eros - for love that's initially built on sexual attraction, and Agape - for the love of the person for who they are. Needless to say, he vastly prefers the latter.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
Time Enough for Love / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut: Maureen, you are. And you love it. And the men in your life love it. Dora as well. And Llita. It's pretty much the norm in the future.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6ca9bb24	type	Eternal Sexual Freedom
Time Enough for Love / int_6ca9bb24	comment	Eternal Sexual Freedom: Lazarus' mother, Maureen, had this value system instilled in her by her father... in the late nineteenth century. She manages to conceal it beneath a very carefully maintained facade of propriety.
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Time Enough for Love / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Time Enough for Love / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: The Howard Families conceal their lengthy lifespans whenever they are among short-lived humans to avoid jealousy, which is most of the time as they're vastly outnumbered on most planets. Secundus is unique because Howards form a majority of the population and can relax there. You can hardly blame them for being cautious after the events of Methuselah's Children; even if Lazarus is the only one old enough to remember those dark days, it likely wasn't many generations ago for some of the Howards.
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Time Enough for Love / int_71ee0f38	type	Beware the Honest Ones
Time Enough for Love / int_71ee0f38	comment	Beware the Honest Ones: Long comments that "business" politicians are usually honest (in the sense that they stay bought) whereas "reform" politicians tend to be stupidly dishonest, because they are capable of doing literally anything that they believe is in the best interests of the "People". This is an idea we have previously seen him express in Stranger in a Strange Land when Jubal bribes the Secretary General.
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Time Enough for Love / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Time Enough for Love / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The back cover blurb of the novel implies a My Own Grampa plot where none such occurs. Although he does sleep with his mother, she's already pregnant at the time and in any event he arrives years after his own birth. On the other hand, his cover story does result in him being taken for his own distant uncle. It also provides incorrect start and end dates for Lazarus' life: 1916 rather than 1912 for his birth, and 4272 for his death, which is not only wrong — the Tertius segment is explicitly set in 4292 — but almost spoils the ending. He does nearly get killed, in 1917, but subsequent novels reveal him to be alive and well years later on his personal timeline.
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Time Enough for Love / int_73d1a356	type	The Noun Who Verbed
Time Enough for Love / int_73d1a356	comment	The Noun Who Verbed: Two chapters are titled "The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail" and "The Tale of the Twins Who Weren't".
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Time Enough for Love / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
Time Enough for Love / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: From The Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
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Time Enough for Love / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Time Enough for Love / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Joe and Llita are twins who were engineered to have no more DNA in common than their parents had, making it safe for them to have children. They do just that. Lazarus sleeping with Laz/Lor can be considered this, along with Screw Yourself and Parental Incest, depending on your point of view.
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Time Enough for Love / int_77d494f0	type	Not Used to Freedom
Time Enough for Love / int_77d494f0	comment	Not Used to Freedom: Lazarus tried to free Joe and Llita immediately after buying them. Trouble was, it didn't make them free in their minds. They knew slaves were sometimes freed by their owners, but it was normally a gesture for old, loyal slaves who just stayed where they were and maybe got paid a little. Lazarus took them along on his trading trip and slowly taught them to be self-sufficient.
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Time Enough for Love / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Time Enough for Love / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: Lazarus Long spends a great deal of time (approximately a third of the novel), discussing or remembering things that have happened to him during his 2300 year long lifetime.
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Time Enough for Love / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Time Enough for Love / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: The final chapter is a bit of a Mind Screw, leaving it up to the audience to interpret whether Lazarus survives and what the cryptic final passage means.
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Time Enough for Love / int_82f3c20	type	Wetware Body
Time Enough for Love / int_82f3c20	comment	Wetware Body: One of the technological feats that Lazarus inspires Ira and crew to accomplish is the downloading of a computer brain into a cloned human body. Minerva is the first AI to accomplish this, but she's followed in later books by several more.
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Time Enough for Love / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Time Enough for Love / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Invoked; Lazarus relates a story about dealing with slavers, and his audience calls him out on omitting the fate of a particular character. His response: "Wondered if you would notice that. I spaced the bastard! Alive. He went thataway, eyes popped out and peeing blood. What did you expect me to do? Kiss him?" Lazarus tells how David Lamb impregnated a young woman and married her while a cadet at Annapolis. The wife gets brief mentions later on, but the child isn't mentioned even once; only the pregnancy is. Even its gender is unknown.
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Time Enough for Love / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Time Enough for Love / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Lazarus basically takes this position toward the subject of the planet Mary Sperling stayed behind on.
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Time Enough for Love / int_8d86bcd3	type	Theme Initials
Time Enough for Love / int_8d86bcd3	comment	Theme Initials: "LL". Then, "LLL". Lots of L's, anyway.
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Time Enough for Love / int_8e35ce90	type	FramingStory
Time Enough for Love / int_8e35ce90	comment	Framing Story: The first two thirds of the novel is this for Lazarus' memoirs. The last third is a more traditional sci-fi Time Travel romp.
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Time Enough for Love / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
Time Enough for Love / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: Lapis Lazuli Long and Lorelei Lee Long (Laz and Lor for short).
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Time Enough for Love / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Time Enough for Love / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: From the notebooks:
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Time Enough for Love / int_97ddee3e	type	My Skull Runneth Over
Time Enough for Love / int_97ddee3e	comment	My Skull Runneth Over: See The Fog of Ages above.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
Time Enough for Love / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: As the oldest man alive, Lazarus feels the need to defer to nobody.
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Time Enough for Love / int_98770aab	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce
Time Enough for Love / int_98770aab	comment	Coup de Grâce: Administered by Lazarus to an injured pioneer bandit — that Dora shot first, saving both their lives.
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Time Enough for Love / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Time Enough for Love / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Lazarus's grandfather, having no way to perform a DNA check, comes to the erroneous conclusion that Lazarus is his dead brother's illegitimate child. Maureen later tells Lazarus that her father admitted to her he thinks it's at least as likely that "Ted Bronson" (the alias Lazarus is using on his time trip) is actually his own extramarital child. After finding out with which of his wives he produced Ishtar's family line, Lazarus confides to Ira that he's pretty sure said wife got pregnant by someone else — albeit with one of his descendants, so Ishtar is descended from him anyway. Lazarus mentions that he's quite certain he raised children over his centuries of life who were not his biological offspring, and believes in letting women lie about it if they feel the need to. He says that he was especially careful to be a loving father to such children. The group marriage on Tertius is set to sidestep this: you can join at any time and leave at almost any time. However, if any babies arrive while you're there, then you're expected to stick around until "they're grown", no matter what. You might not be the father, but you are expected to teach them how to behave.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
Time Enough for Love / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Faced with Lazarus' reluctance to sleep with them, Laz and Lor assert that sex with one's Opposite Sex Clones cannot be incest by definition; it's closer to masturbation. Of course it turns out that he just wanted to be convinced it was their own free choice in the matter.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Time Enough for Love / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Lazarus Long, two thousand years in the future, has to explain to his daughters/sisters/clones that people in the 20th century actually wore clothes while swimming. They don't understand why anyone would.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9bea8bd1	type	Space Western
Time Enough for Love / int_9bea8bd1	comment	Space Western: Life on a planetary colony is highly reminiscent of the old West.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
Time Enough for Love / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Laz/Lor. They practice Finishing Each Other's Sentences, partly out of amusement at how it weirds people out. They also claim to be able to read each other's thoughts.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Time Enough for Love / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After Lazarus breaks his Masquerade to his 1917 family, they point out that he doesn't actually need to go through with his enlistment in World War One — and specifically, that while he knows the outcome of the war in general, he can't know the outcome of his own participation because it's in his personal future. He assures them that he'll be careful; he's a veteran of countless wars and knows when to duck. Oh, Lazarus — Tempting Fate much?
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Time Enough for Love / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Time Enough for Love / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: A heretofore unexplored aspect of the Libby FTL drive, Lazarus is asked to use this to explore all sorts of past events by the Howard Families. He eventually settles on visiting his family in 1919. Unfortunately, he makes a calculation error and ends up in 1916 instead, just prior to America's entry into World War I.
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Time Enough for Love / int_9e6e54db	type	The Older Immortal
Time Enough for Love / int_9e6e54db	comment	The Older Immortal: Lazarus is the oldest man alive.
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Time Enough for Love / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Time Enough for Love / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Lazarus remarks that one of two ways to tell a lie artistically is to tell the truth in such a manner that no one believes you. Needless to say, he's an excellent liar, having learned the art at his grandfather's knee — more properly, by being paddled over his grandfather's knee for getting caught. He counts this as among his most important survival skills.
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Time Enough for Love / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
Time Enough for Love / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: And damned well earned it too. If only those young whippersnappers would let him die in peace!
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Time Enough for Love / int_a20ff0b5	type	Bindle Stick
Time Enough for Love / int_a20ff0b5	comment	Bindle Stick: Lazarus has one packed for him in 1916 by a kindly doctor's sister, though he re-packs it soon afterward, as it's a liability on the road to look like a "bindle stiff".
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Time Enough for Love / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Time Enough for Love / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: After his rejuvenation, Lazarus takes his new family and a few others and founds the Tertius colony. After a Time Skip, we see that he's living with them in a Romanesque group marriage, with himself as a sort of presiding officer over their good-natured anarchy.note When inviting another character to join, one of the 'rules' translates to: "Any kids born while you're here are (partially) your responsibility. You don't leave until they can take care of themselves." This is to make sure everyone is a responsible parent, regardless of actual... parentage.
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Time Enough for Love / int_a63b885f	type	Newspaper Dating
Time Enough for Love / int_a63b885f	comment	Newspaper Dating: Lazarus discovers by this method that he arrived in Missouri a few years too early and is now going to have to get mixed up in, or dodge, World War One.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
Time Enough for Love / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Lazarus uses this method, involving letters in a series of nested envelopes, to send regular reports back to Tertius on his progress in the 1910s. They use the moment when letters stop being sent to pinpoint when he needs to be rescued.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
Time Enough for Love / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: Discussed:
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Time Enough for Love / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
Time Enough for Love / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: Unbeknownst to Lazarus, his Tertius family implants one in him prior to his departure to the twentieth century. This comes in very handy when he has to be rescued later.
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Time Enough for Love / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Time Enough for Love / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayfly–December Romance: Whenever a Howard marries an "ephemeral". Lazarus illustrates this most keenly in his recounting of his marriage to Dora, who was his greatest love and, consequently, the greatest loss in his life when she inevitably passed on. He remarks that it is this more than anything that keeps Howards apart from greater human society; it's also nearly impossible to maintain the Masquerade in the presence of someone you're intimate with for years.
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Time Enough for Love / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Time Enough for Love / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Heinlein takes a twenty page break from the story in order to go on a lengthy discussion of genetics which only has a moment of fleeting relevance in the plot.
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Time Enough for Love / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Time Enough for Love / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: The Howard Families in general seem to have adopted extremely open and liberal attitudes toward sex over the centuries; this is explained as a natural result of their focus on genetic compatibility in procreation above traditional social mores — make healthy babies and whatever else you do is your business. It's interesting to observe the traditions and taboos that have developed even within this system, particularly the focus on registering all children with the Families' geneticists and an ingrained aversion to "defectives". Lazarus observes, however, that Howards are very careful to maintain a Masquerade of conformance to the norms of whatever society they're living in, to avoid drawing attention to themselves. Ishtar and Galahad agree to have sex...not having exchanged names and having seen each other only in isolation suits. They're basically attracted to each other mentally, and when Ishtar asks Galahad his sex, he asks, "Does it matter?" It doesn't. She actually admits later that she guessed him to be female. Ira, interestingly, is said to have an aversion to risking procreation with his daughter, Hamadryad, even though a Howard geneticist — or better yet, Minerva/Athena — can examine a couple's genomes and assess the risk of birth defects. Hamadryad says that Ira is possibly the father of one of her children, though.
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Time Enough for Love / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
Time Enough for Love / int_bb53d08	comment	This does lead to a Tear Jerker: against his own personal experience/advice, Lazarus married an 'ordinary' person, and lived with her for decades. Then he was with her when she died of old age...
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Time Enough for Love / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
Time Enough for Love / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: Within the Howard Families, this is pretty much a given due to the limited gene pool they started with and the intermingling across the centuries. Lazarus takes it to a frankly absurd extreme: it's statistically estimated that over 80 percent of people with Howard ancestry are his descendants — 99+% if you claim a recent Howard ancestor. In fact, the novel makes a Running Gag out of the Howards he meets telling him how closely related they are.
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Time Enough for Love / int_bd08288f	type	Mouthy Kid
Time Enough for Love / int_bd08288f	comment	Mouthy Kid: The portrayal of Lazarus' 1917 self, Woodie (or Woodrow Wilson Smith, if you prefer). He's about as un-innocent as it's possible for a five-year old boy to be and Lazarus reflects on how it took many, many applications of paddle to arse to keep him even remotely in line.
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Time Enough for Love / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Time Enough for Love / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Given the reverence of the Howard families for long-lived people and the reticence of the man himself, Lazarus has acquired an almost mythological status among those who know of his existence. He himself is quick to deflate their near-worship by pointing out that he's just a "grumpy old man". To which Ira retorts that he's lived over two thousand years, so he must possess some unusual traits, even if it's just the knowledge of how to live that long.
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Time Enough for Love / int_bf64595b	type	Diamonds in the Buff
Time Enough for Love / int_bf64595b	comment	Diamonds in the Buff: In the section "The Tale of the Adopted Daughter" Lazarus' wife Dora sometimes wears a weapons belt, a set of ruby jewelry he gave her (several bracelets, rings, and a pendant)...and nothing else.
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Time Enough for Love / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
Time Enough for Love / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Used in reverse — Lazarus' deal with Ira is that he will agree to rejuvenation for only as long as Ira continues to listen to him tell his stories, and the whole deal is conditional on Ira finding something (not ridiculously suicidal) to do that Lazarus hasn't already done.
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Time Enough for Love / int_cb63f039	type	Spaceship Girl
Time Enough for Love / int_cb63f039	comment	Spaceship Girl: Dora, named by Lazarus after the woman he loved more than any other.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ccc0d531	type	Settling the Frontier
Time Enough for Love / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: Lazarus has led the colonization of many a planet in his centuries of life, partly because he believes in the expansion of the human race and partly because he vastly prefers the pioneer mindset to the city mindset. Whenever life gets "too busy" on a planet he's made home, he uproots himself and colonizes a new one. Toward the end, on Tertius, he complains that advances in technology have made it too easy.
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Time Enough for Love / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Time Enough for Love / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Lazarus has a truly awesome number of them, many of which are enumerated in the introduction.
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Time Enough for Love / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Time Enough for Love / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: As related in Methuselah's Children, the Howard Foundation was started by a rich man dying prematurely of old age, and was essentially an experiment in applied eugenics — breed long-lived people to each other to get even longer-lived people. It was so successful that it inspired the ordinary short-lived humans to develop rejuvenation technology, and the combination of the two enables effectively indefinite human lifespans. However, natural attrition and ennui mean that Lazarus is statistically the oldest known human being by a factor of at least two.
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Time Enough for Love / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Time Enough for Love / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The equations used by the Libby drive in FTL Travel for thousands of years have apparently always implied the possibility of Time Travel, but nobody realized it until Minerva speaks up. Far from causing shocked surprise in everyone who hears about it, they treat it as just another interesting scientific discovery and send exactly one human being (Lazarus) to explore the past. Lazarus, for his part, is explicitly uninterested in going back to watch wars and stuff; he's more curious about things like the first Mozart concert, or whether Jesus was a real person.
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Time Enough for Love / int_daba1b82	type	Finishing Each Other's Sentences
Time Enough for Love / int_daba1b82	comment	Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Laz and Lor do this, to the point of actively annoying the other characters. They find it difficult to organize their thoughts when made to speak singly — at one point, Lazarus gets tired of the gag and orders them point blank to have one speak for both of them.
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Time Enough for Love / int_db1115f9	type	Shooting Lessons From Your Parents
Time Enough for Love / int_db1115f9	comment	Shooting Lessons From Your Parents: When Lazarus Long was ten years old, his grandfather Ira Johnson taught him how to shoot. The most important lesson he learned was to never trust anyone else's word about whether a gun was loaded or unloaded, but to always check it yourself. He says that that lesson - expanded to cover most situations - saved his life several times.
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Time Enough for Love / int_de62575	type	Mix-and-Match Man
Time Enough for Love / int_de62575	comment	Mix-and-Match Man: Minerva's Wetware Body is a synthetic clone combining one chromosome pair each from twenty-three parents, including Lazarus.
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Time Enough for Love / int_de7d6710	type	Silly Will
Time Enough for Love / int_de7d6710	comment	Silly Will: Lazarus tries to put together his will so that all his assets will be left to Prostitutes, Panhandlers, and other undesirables beginning with 'P'. When Minerva points out that probably won't survive legal arbitration, he says to leave it to a cat shelter instead, or some other useless thing that will get through, as long as the trustees can't get hold of it.
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Time Enough for Love / int_dfed6ad8	type	Seen-It-All Suicide
Time Enough for Love / int_dfed6ad8	comment	Seen-It-All Suicide: Lazarus's reasoning for refusing rejuvenation is that the universe holds nothing new for him.
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Time Enough for Love / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
Time Enough for Love / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Discussed by Lazarus in response to Dora, who has just shot a man for the first time and wonders whether she's perverse in feeling horny afterwards. He reassures her that it's perfectly normal, as long as she doesn't get addicted to the sensation.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Time Enough for Love / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: While Lazarus relates a few tales about encountering alien life in his explorations of the galaxy (see Methuselah's Children), none of them seem able to compete even remotely with humanity's colonial drive, even if they are physically or technologically superior. He proposes Creative Sterility as one possible explanation.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Time Enough for Love / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: According to Lazarus, at least as important as knowing how to shoot straight is being wise enough to get out of town before the shooting starts. He ascribes his survival largely to the practical application of this kind of common sense, and the one time he fails at it is the time Death nearly catches up to him.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Time Enough for Love / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Lazarus justifies this by deducing that sapient computers learn to be human by taking on aspects of their owners' personalities.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Time Enough for Love / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: As an enlistee in World War One, Lazarus is unable to conceal the fact that he's a veteran of wars beyond count in his multiple future lifetimes. Rather than try, he instead refuses to deny the notion that he might be a deserter from the French Foreign Legion, and only occasionally salutes in a "French" manner and drops an oddly accented word in his conversation. In this way he acquires a reputation as a major badass.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Time Enough for Love / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: Lazarus feels that any sufficiently large and crowded human society inevitably devolves into tyranny. This is why, when things get too "busy" on whatever planet he's on, he grabs a bunch of like-minded folks and colonizes a fresh one. This point of view contributes to the Libertarian Aesop of the novel: a man is at his best when governed as little as possible.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e9702c83	type	Opposite-Sex Clone
Time Enough for Love / int_e9702c83	comment	Opposite-Sex Clone: The thing that gets Lazarus interested in life again — his caretakers conspire to bear twin female clones of him.
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Time Enough for Love / int_e9e2c54d	type	You Already Changed the Past
Time Enough for Love / int_e9e2c54d	comment	Discussed when Lazarus travels back to the 20th century, and ultimately resolved in favor of You Already Changed the Past. However, Lazarus commits a major error in reassuring his 1917 family that, since he's from the future, he'll survive his involvement in World War One, ignoring that this is the second time through from his personal point of view. It bites him in the ass hard.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Time Enough for Love / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: A question raised by the story; apparently, the Howard Families' statistics show that the most common cause of non-accidental death among their members is refusing further rejuvenations.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Time Enough for Love / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Woodie, to Lazarus and Maureen's would-be tryst, by virtue of stowing away in their car. Their reluctance to proceed in his presence is not so much out of concern for his innocence as for his blabber mouth.
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Time Enough for Love / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Time Enough for Love / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Laz and Lor decide to take a turn at space piracy when they grow up. It is unrevealed if they actually hijack other ships or not.
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Time Enough for Love / int_eece5183	type	Have You Seen My God?
Time Enough for Love / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: At one point, Lazarus ponders the possibility that "God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends," concluding, "this may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology." The formal name for such a theory is Pandeism.
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Time Enough for Love / int_f2350614	type	Nothing Left to Do but Die
Time Enough for Love / int_f2350614	comment	Nothing Left to Do but Die: Ira makes it his job to convince Lazarus otherwise.
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Time Enough for Love / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
Time Enough for Love / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Lazarus' squad in World War One, by a Jerkass lieutenant, to clear some barbed wire. Turns out that machine guns don't care if you're two thousand years old or from the future.
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Time Enough for Love / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Time Enough for Love / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Or in this case makes you enlist in the army in World War One so as not to disappoint your mother, whom you have traveled in time to visit and have fallen in love with, despite having no personal stake in the war and knowing the outcome... of the war, that is.
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Time Enough for Love / int_f7a2e62c	type	Fake Assisted Suicide
Time Enough for Love / int_f7a2e62c	comment	Fake Assisted Suicide: Lazarus Long is twenty-three hundred years old and just wants to die. The staff of the clinic holding him sabotages his suicide device so that when he tries to use it he's just rendered unconscious and his short-term memory is wiped instead of dying. They do this so they can continue the rejuvenation process that will make him feel like wanting to live again, while he thinks that he can choose to die at any time.note This does cause a conflict between two Rejuvenation Clinic employees, since one points out their 'mandate' includes allowing anyone to end their own life if they want it enough, under an expansion of "Do no harm" (if unwanted life harms the person living it).
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Time Enough for Love / int_fe3368cf	type	My Future Self and Me
Time Enough for Love / int_fe3368cf	comment	My Future Self and Me: Yes, Lazarus, that ornery five-year old with the flappy Dr. Dentons is you.
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Time Enough for Love / int_feea44a5	type	Fully-Clothed Nudity
Time Enough for Love / int_feea44a5	comment	Fully-Clothed Nudity: Discussed by Lazarus with respect to the mores of the 1910s. In particular, he is amazed by how he can be turned on by Maureen's nearly Victorian flirtatiousness despite living in a future where casual nudity is the norm.
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Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Bindle Stick / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Breeding Slave / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Classical Tongue / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Colony Ship / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Computer Voice / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Coup de GrÃ¢ce / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Dead Guy on Display / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Democracy Is Bad / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Democracy Is Flawed / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Doppelganger Link / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Enlightened Self-Interest / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Fictional Currency / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Framing Device / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Frontier Doctor / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Generation Ships / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Grandfather Paradox / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Hard on Soft Science / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Hard Truth Aesop / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Home Guard / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	I Hate Past Me / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Immortal Procreation Clause / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Improvised Clothes / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Kid from the Future / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Love Makes You Dumb / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Man in a Kilt / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Mary Suetopia / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Friendship / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Moment Killer / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Money to Burn / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Mouthy Kid / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	My Future Self and Me / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	My Grandson, Myself / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	My Own Grampa / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	My Skull Runneth Over / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Newspaper Dating / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Nostalgia Filter / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Not Used to Freedom / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Omniglot / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Population Control / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Retroactive Precognition / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Sapient Steed / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Settling the Frontier / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Shooting Lessons From Your Parents / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Silly Will / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Single-Minded Twins / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Soldiers at the Rear / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Spaceship Girl / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Strange Salute / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Super Breeding Program / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	The Fog of Ages / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	The Noun Who Verbed / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Thrown Out the Airlock / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Time-Travel Romance / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Tracking Device / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Truly Single Parent / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Twin Telepathy / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Twincest / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Unproblematic Prostitution / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Wetware Body / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Write Back to the Future / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Flying Dutchman / int_65608411
Time Enough for Love	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism / int_65608411

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