Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.
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I only remember what I have learnt. PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the... GILBERT WHITE I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point... EDMUND WHITE I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much... AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you. AARON WHITE