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...still tell the story of how he faked a death scene. Some years ago, happening to be in the laboratory when an experiment blew up, Chaffee thought he would make the most of the opportunity. Spreading false blood "around the laboratory, he prostrated himself on the floor in a lifeless position only to horrify the bewildered attendants who came running to the scene...
...World Stuff. Huxley flatly rejects the philosophic dualism which divides truth into two kinds, scientific and revealed. He declares that the world, living and lifeless, mental and physical, is composed of one stuff. "In reproduction there is no moment at which life enters . . . the offspring is merely a detached portion of the parental living substance...
Walt Disney is in his element only when dealing with rodents. His deer, like his human characters, are flat, two-dimensional color patterns, animated but lifeless. And his cannel but highly emotional thunderstorms are worse still; they are Disney trying to do what the Lord never intended he should; they are Moon Mullins making an ass of himself on the Flash Gordon page...
Mysterious emergence out of nowhere is common to viruses. In size they are somewhere between living bacteria and lifeless molecules, and they share some characteristics of each. They crystallize like lifeless matter, but they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague...
...attack was scheduled for daybreak. In the close-packed boats moving toward the Continent, men loaded the magazines of their Bren guns and checked equipment. It was a hot, muggy night on a lifeless Channel...