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"Doctor, there are some things man was never meant to tamper with"...or positive, or neutral results of human working with genes, gene splicing, or accidental mutations, etcetera.
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message 1: by [deleted user] (new)

Lord of the Flies has genetics? I sure don't remember that. I guess its time to read it again?


message 2: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn ~☆ Alice☆~ wrote: "Lord of the Flies has genetics? I sure don't remember that. I guess its time to read it again?"

I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to blow it off the list--no genetics IMO


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Thom wrote: " ~☆ Alice☆~ wrote: "Lord of the Flies has genetics? I sure don't remember that. I guess its time to read it again?"

I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to blow it off the list--no genetics IMO"


I will delete it then. I sure didn't remember any.


message 4: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn As a student at Ohio Wesleyan, I met William Golding sometime near 1960. It was a meeting of English majors in the attic apartment of Bill Heald, a faculty of blessed memory. His wife asked about sex in Lord of the Flies and expressed incredulity when Golding said there "Was no sex" in the book.


message 5: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn ~☆ Alice☆~ wrote: "I didn't remember sex either but its been ages since I had to read it."

Sex only in the Freudian sense, the bloodlust of the hunters constituting sublimated male sexuality.


message 6: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn ~☆ Alice☆~ wrote: "Oh, I guess that makes sense but I never like Old Fraud as some friends and I called him in college.
What I remember about this book was the sadistic tendencies of healthy boys toward the ones who..."


One of my colleagues referred to Freud as "The Viennese witch doctor".


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I like Viennese witch doctor even better.


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