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	The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hoag manages to be by turns idealistic, cynical, dark-visioned, sweetness-and-light, terrifying, heartwarming and philosophical.
		"It is blood, doctor?" Jonathan Hoag moistened his lips with his tongue and leaned forward in the chair, trying to see what was written on the slip of paper the medico held.
		Hoag knew that he should have felt relieved.
	www.wegrokit.com /the_unpleasant_profession_of_jonathan_hoag.htm (331 words)

	Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Heinlein Concordance
		It was worshipped by the Sons of the Bird, but according to Jonathan Hoag it did not exist.
		This assignment involved them with the plotting of the Sons of the Bird, and in untangling the mess Hoag remembered that he was not an ordinary human being but an "art critic" on Earth to experience human reality so as to judge the worthiness of the "artistic endeavor", i.e.
		Jonathan Hoag said he was Hoag's therapist at the St.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag: Books: Robert A Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag" first appeared in the Oct 1942 edition of Unknown magazine, as by "John Riverside" (one of about six of Heinlein's pseudonyms).
		Hoag has a problem: in the evenings he finds a curious reddish residue under his fingernails, and no memory of what he was doing during the day to get that residue.
		So he hires a husband and wife team of detectives to follow him around and find out what is really going on.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Unpleasant-Profession-Jonathan-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0450028860 (785 words)

	HOAG
		"HOAG" is a common misspelling or typo for: hag, hoagie, hoar, hoax, hoe, hog, homage, hug.
		W.M. Hoag, president of the Albert Keep Lodge Number 364 of the International Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
		Hoag is a yard engine foreman at the West Chicago yards of the Northwestern Railroad.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/HOAG (331 words)

	Heinlein in Dimension, Chapter 2, Part 4
		Of the whole lot, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" remains one of my favorites for all that I can see that it is severely flawed.
		They do know the grime under Hoag's fingernails for what it is -- their own blood -- and know Hoag for their enemy, and consequently attempt to keep Randall, the detective, from finding out for Hoag what he wishes to know.
		Part of his time is spent in dealing with the Sons of the Bird, and the rest of his time, unaware that he is anything but a man, unaware of his other activities, he spends in savoring life, in the process gathering the material for his critical other self to make its judgment.
	www.panshin.com /critics/Dimension/hd02-4.html (3411 words)

	The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942) is a (A short novel) novella by (United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)) Robert A. Heinlein.
		A man comes to an investigator with an odd request, he wants to have himself followed because he has no idea of his own profession.
		The story evolves into a discusion of the reality of both life and art.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_unpleasant_profession_of_jonathan_hoag.htm (75 words)

	Amazon.com: The unpleasant profession of Jonathan Hoag: Books: Robert A Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Much of Heinlein's early writing was tied to his envisioned Future History, but he had a few stories that didn't fit into that mold, stories that frequently showed a different side of Heinlein, a more mystical, musing, fantastical side than what appeared in his standard science fiction fare.
		Why in the world did they let this gem go out of print?Heinlein was often at his best in his shorter works, and each of thestories in it is a matserpiece of the genre.
		The title story, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", begins with a simple premise- a man comes to a private eye and asks him to figurie out what he does all day.
	www.amazon.com /unpleasant-profession-Jonathan-Hoag/dp/0450028860 (1771 words)

	Bird: The Word
		They're hired by a timid milquetoast of a creampuff named Jonathan Hoag to find the answer to one ever-loving question: just what the hell is it that Hoag does all the live-long day?
		It wasn't worth the hangover, that was for sure, but there was no reason not to make use of whatever the hell it was he'd come up with the night before.
		Hoag did not cover his face; he simply looked confused and a bit more apprehensive.
	www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com /bird/index_2.html (1515 words)

	Amazon.com: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag: Books: Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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		He can't remember anything of the day's events, and worries that the material he finds under his fingernails might be blood.
		The first, and longest selection, THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG, concerns a man, Hoag, who cannot remember what he does during the day.
	www.amazon.com /Unpleasant-Profession-Jonathan-Hoag/dp/0441854575 (1800 words)

	Cabell Prize, 2000, Bill Patterson.
		A husband-and-wife team of private investigators is approached by a somewhat effete Jonathan Hoag, with an odd assignment: they are to find out what he does in the daytime -- he blanks out between dinner parties, it seems.
		Jonathan Hoag's "unpleasant" profession is that of art critic, and he has been sampling Earth in order to judge it as an artistic creation of a student-god (demiurge).
		As in "Unpleasant Profession," the couple is reunited by the gods and demiurges and returned to a comforting illusion with hot fudge sundaes, surrounded by good neighbors drawn from the hosts of the fallen angels of Paradise Lost.
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	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, the
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		Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, the (1942) [novel]
		Wise and cruel was The Bird, and wise and cruel were the Sons of The Bird..." In one of the most chilling novellas ever written, the celebrated author of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND interrupts the lives of two ordinary people for a terrifying night-ride along the interface between reality and...
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	"—And He Built a Crooked House—" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They manage to find a window which still leads outside and escape just as another earthquake rocks the house, which promptly vanishes.
		This story was reprinted in the collection The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).
		This page was last modified 04:30, 20 September 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/And%2BHe%2BBuilt%2Ba%2BCrooked%2BHouse (192 words)

	Bibliography: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959, Gnome Press, $3.50, 256pp, hc) Cover: unknown
		The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959, Gnome, hc)
		The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1983, Berkley, 0425065839, $2.75, tp)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/title.cgi?25653 (62 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: 6xH (Robert Heinlein) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Summary: One novella ("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag") and five short stories ("The Man Who Traveled in Elephants," "All You Zombies," "They," "Our Fair City," and "And He Built a Crooked House") by Robert Heinlein.
		An ultimately forgettable collection, this book is saved only by the novella ("Hoag") and the last short story ("Crooked House").
		"Hoag" is noteworthy for an eerie and mysterious buildup; unfortunately, it is equally noteworthy for an out-of-the-blue, hokey spiritual ending.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/HeinleinRobert6xH.shtml (129 words)

	Alphecca: Summer Reading
		Yup, Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, and my favorite of his, Farnham's Freehold.
		But "The Unpleasant Profession.." doesn't ring a bell, and "The Cat..." rings a bell but that's about all.
		The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (assuming you have the version with the additional short stories) has absolutely the greatest time travel short story ever written: "All You Zombies".
	www.alphecca.com /mt_alphecca_archives/001436.html (716 words)

	Heinlein in Dimension, Chapter 2, Part 1
		It is easy to see how closely the three Heinlein hallmarks I have just mentioned -- the story of a process, the tendency to lecture about details, and the choice of characters able to do -- are related.
		Heinlein's first period begins with "Life-Line" in the August 1939 Astounding, and ends with the story "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag," published under the name John Riverside in the October 1942 issue of Unknown Worlds, the fantasy companion of Astounding that died in the World War II paper shortage.
		In this time, he published twenty-eight science fiction and fantasy stories, about a quarter of which were novels.
	www.panshin.com /critics/Dimension/hd02-1.html (2004 words)

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		God is a kindergarten student and his universe project isn't very good and his teacher tells his parents he's very slow.
		It is not "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag," which is a bit of the same theme and also quite good.
		This was pretty far back and may be by asimov as I was on an asimov kick at age 7.
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	Fiona Kelleghan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jonathan Lethem began publishing short fiction in 1989 with "The Cave Beneath the Falls," which Locus magazine promoted in its list of recommended stories.
		Gun was followed by the novels Amnesia Moon (1995), As She Climbed Across the Table (1997), and Girl in Landscape (1998), and by the 1997 World Fantasy Award-winning short-story collection The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (1996).
		But there are also accidental relationships that now seem very exciting to me. I think the collection turned out to be almost as thematically unified as a novel.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/dmyers/fiona.html (7606 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The three novellas: "Magic, Inc.," "Waldo," and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" are vintage Heinlein; the last is a Lovecraftian tale of an amnesiac who hires PIs to find out what he does all day--what they uncover isn't illegal but is supernaturally evil, and Hoag is neither perpetrator nor victim.
		Besides "Magic," two more novellas appear, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" and "Waldo." The latter introduced the concept of remote sensing, now a staple of hard sf, and its exploration of life under weightless conditions is as fresh as ever.
		Then there are four short stories, one of which, "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants," features Heinlein in a rare sentimental mood.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0312875576/reviews (806 words)

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