Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were sure they had something--why on one of those nights you were conceived and on the others you weren't is beyond them; 3) you as an individual, and not someone totally different, were created because the sperm cell with our genetic code happened to fertilize an egg before any of 18,000,000,000 others did. A few examples of the 18 billion other possibilities of the union of your two parents are your brothers and sisters...
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...using puns and irony as no one else can. Often the reader is at a total loss--Berryman tries to say so much that his shorthand is sometimes legible only to himself, if at all. It reminds one of Finnegans Wake. What can one make, for instance, of "an egg lined with...
...society. His descriptions of village life resurrect a forgotten world. He recalls work, fiestas, cock fights, fashions and trysts in the cane fields with a simplicity that imparts an aura of vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer and a big nail, look for a young ceiba-tree in the countryside and hammer on the trunk hard three time. As soon as the bugger hears this call...
Among the many other experts who concur with Cross are Dr. Emil Wits-chi, senior investigator in reproduction and embryology for the Population Council, and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood. The stale-egg theory has been confirmed in animal experiments, but as Guttmacher concedes, it is more difficult to establish scientific proof...