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Brain Music

From the February 1996 Print Edition

No God would make a world in such poor taste, scoffed Darwin, thinking of blind nature’s waste, of creatures duplicate, ungainly, vile: too many mollusks, slime without soul or style. Better to hope the blood-lust brutes displayed allowed the strong to shine like hammered blades, that pyramid . . . . Continue Reading »