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...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...
...what promises, what dazzling things to come?a new alchemy that may one day turn the basest of creatures into genetic gold. That alchemy is already capable of making new drugs like the antiviral agent interferon, a possible weapon with which to attack cancer. In the future, it may produce vaccines against hepatitis and malaria; miracle products like low-calorie sugar; hardy self-fertilizing food crops that could usher in a new "green revolution"; fuels, plastics and other industrial chemicals, out of civilization's wastes; mining and refining processes to relieve Malthusian anxieties about a future without sufficient raw materials...
Divinity is basest of the three...
...issue of birth control is instructive here. Its practice is also forbidden by a literal interpretation of the Bible, yet we do not persecute those who use it. In fact, many users are the same ones who condemn homosexuality as ungodly. This selective piety is the basest hypocrisy...
...detective is Jake Pepper, a state investigator who reads Dickens and quotes Twain: "Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one, the solitary one, that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also in all the list, he is the only creature that has a nasty mind...