Kristine
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| Quote (CeilingCat @ Dec. 07 2011,03:26) | DeNews asks the question: "why is there a fascinati0n with this crap?"
The "crap" she is referring to is a novel written by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton of eugenics fame. She is the only person I have ever heard refer to it. Personally, I never knew he wrote a novel until now.
Following through to her link at New Scientist , we find that he never actually even published it, dropping dead instead, and his family destroyed most of the novel instead of sending it to a publisher.
So DeNews wants to know why we're all so fascinated by a novel nobody's ever heard of that was written by Darwin's cousin and was destroyed a hundred years ago and never published.
If we didn't have ID, who would raise these important questions?
University College, London, has put the few remaining sections of the book we're all so fascinated with on line. Warning: all of the sex scenes were removed by Galton's family. |
Can any one even tease out what point of view she is advancing in her confused little missive? Is she accusing her "moral and intellectual superiors" (well, that hardly nails it down below 6.999 billion) of suppressing the same book that they have made available? Anyone?
Also, in what sense [guffaw] does she label Galton's novel "horrible" - as literature, as science fiction, or as morally reprehensible? All three? I wonder: has she read it? Because it is prudent to reserve judgement on a book until one actually looks at it. Galton's book does not sound like riveting reading, but it cannot be worse than From the Ashes by George Stone (which, thankfully, none of you have heard of, either).
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