Genetics in Science Fiction

"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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