I am by the sea and I have a picture

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The news which made my day when I woke up and saw it in the paper: some of us have Neanderthal DNA. The original published papers are here, currently free to all visitors.

My mother is delighted. "Of course," she said when I showed her the article. "And they were gentle and ate wonderful grubs and were telepathic." The first book she ever read about the Neanderthals was William Golding's The Inheritors (1955).

I think it's pretty awesome, too.

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An antidote for The Lord of the Flies sounds a good thing, although I have to admit that, in stereotypical boy-like fashion, I didn't much mind reading it. (Looking back, I'm surprised I didn't write fanfic where Piggy was a weapons geek and he and his friends used crossbows and bamboo rockets to maintain order on the island, but I was presumably too busy writing Star Trek parodies.)

I hope it's still in print.

I hope it is, also. Will put it on my list to pick up--I'll take your fond memories as proof it's worth the reading.