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“As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.”
“Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.”
“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”
“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.”
“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds by a doubt which, if expressed in words, might have come out someth...”
“It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. Thats all I can say.”
“Mary Hepburn was meanwhile murdering herself up in her room, lying on her bed with the polyethylene sheath of her "Jackie dress" swapped around her head. The sheath was now all steamed up inside, a...”
“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never ...”
