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It's true that Darwin did confide in close associates, but I don't think there is any evidence of the kind of lobbying depicted in the play. In reality, of course, models of evolution existed before Darwin, but they were scientifically unconvincing and easily dismissed. The evidence for an old earth
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Thanks for the note. I've seen the play you refer to. It was many years ago so I don't remember the details. I have memories of Philip Gosse wandering the beach getting stressed about Darwin and coming up with his
Omphalos theory; the seriously ill young Edmund being 'comforted' by being told he was
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is about a woman who has no firm social position, nothing to stand on, no prior friendships in this little dingy town, and so she's forced to bend to arbitrary wishes and commands from everyone else: she has to smile for the camera all the time. It will be some time before I'll put my hands to that
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I've now had a quick read over the article. I wouldn't want to add anything, since it includes everythuing I remember apart from a bit of minor dialogue about Robin Hood! I guess the historical background is what's at issue. Gosse's book is nearly 400 pages long, so I wouldn't call it a "pamphlet",
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Cordelia is a figura Christi, but the link is sort of implied - a dozen pages before he has briefed the reader on Girard's view of the Bible and of Jesus as the man who unravels the mimetic and sacrificial deception and breaks the circle of
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Hi, I'd be happy to help out on that article, but I don't think I've actually seen that play, or if I have I don't remember it, so any details I add would ghave to be just about the incident itself.
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