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David J. Larkin Jr.

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November 19, 1948

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David J. Larkin, Jr. (1948- ) was born in Spokane, Washington, but grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He served as a Mormon missionary in Brazil (1969-1971), where, in the waning hours of his time there, he had a revelation. That revelation--an answer to the question, "What is truth?"--is the subject of his novel, THE BOOK OF THOMPSON: A Mormon Tragedy, available through Amazon.

When Larkin was an undergraduate student at Eastern Washington State College (now "University"), his Anthropology teacher drew a kinship diagram of a "typical" African tribal family on the blackboard. To illustrate how different that would be from the more simplistic diagram typical of an American family, the teacher chose a student at random--Larkin--to diagram his famil ...more

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David J. Larkin, Jr. said: " "These facts," says Darwin in the second sentence of his most famous and controversial book, "seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--the mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers." And the sen ...more "

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