Canyonites - “And He Built a Crooked House”
Heinlein observes, “The Canyonites—the brown-legged women, the trunks-clad men constantly busy building and rebuilding their slap-happy unfinished houses—regard with faint contempt the dull creatures who live down in the flats, and treasure in their hearts the secret knowledge that they, and only they, know how to live.” The imagery of the Canyonites and their abodes depicts them as disconsolate people. Lifelessness and dilapidation are permeating among the Canyonites such that they deem an indispensable constituent of their actuality.
The Bar - “Columbus Was a Dope”
“Columbus Was a Dope” is set in a bar with a ‘sighing air conditioner’. The bar is upstairs due ‘the elevator door opposite them ( the characters)’.The prime happenings in the bar comprise drinking and discoursing about commerce agreements.
The Burn - “Columbus Was a Dope”
In a tête-à-tête with Fred, Barnes reveals, "Well, they won't. They don't stand a chance. I know. I talked it over with our technical staff before I left the home office. Nine chances out of ten they'll burn up on the take off. That' the best that can happen to them. If they get out of the solar system, which ain't likely, they'll still never make it. They'll never reach the star.” The imagery of the burn renders the imminent voyage an unwarrantable task that could terminate in the expeditioners’ assured demises. The certain blazing suggests that the expedition is not unquestionably non-hazardous and viable.
