Original artwork, not a still
Time Enough for Love • 1973
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Heinlein jokes that strong drink wrecks your judgment and your aim. Picking a fight with tax collectors is bad enough, but missing is the real insult. Drunkenness makes even a rebellion incompetent, which is the joke.
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