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Karen Dinesen was nine when her beloved father hanged himself. The aristocrat had been an adventurer and writer in his youth; along the way he contracted syphilis. The symptoms, combined with an inborn melancholia, undid him. His life haunted Karen's. The imaginative, brilliant child read her father's account of his travels with American Indians, written under the Chippewa name Boganis. Her literary career began with a play entitled The Revenge of Truth; when she was 22, her first published tale was signed Osceola, the name of a Seminole chief...
...memories are shot through with a ceaseless struggle to prove himself worthy, with a sense of rejection as a Yankee in the South and a Southerner in the North, and with the agonizing depressions and deaths of his father and his only sibling Mary Jane. Coupled with an inborn restlessness, those memories have left him all but incapable of repose...
...Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing was a nice quality...
There is no evidence, though, that a taste for salt is inborn. Babies show a clear natural preference for sweetness, but as a group are indifferent to the taste of salt. Some babies do appear to like salt more than others, and recent research now suggests that those who do, have higher blood pressure, an indication of a hypertensive future...
...think that people learn war or is it inborn...