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...encountered during the interviewing process. However, the author was wrong in assuming that "about the only totally safe question to ask a potential employee is 'Would you like a cup of coffee?' " You see, in the Mormon-dominated state of Utah, where drinking coffee is a sin, the positive response by an interviewee to such a question would most probably preclude employment...
...first algae, through the many amphibian and primate stages, with a stop at Ramapithecus along the way, faster and faster until he discovers sexuality, and then language. The narrator to this Biology-book scenario notes a sudden pause in Simon's euphoria--probably about the time of the Original Sin--and concludes that "... there's too much joy. He gets guilt and religion...
...Hebrews decreed that intercourse was for sons, not pleasure. Adulteresses were stoned to death, prostitution was an abomination, homosexuality a capital offense. When Christianity augmented a religious legacy with the personal revulsion of the early church fathers against their own licentious youths, everything to do with sex became a sin, save procreation-a view still echoed in parts of the Muslim world...
...later: "He chooses to suppress--the sin of omission. He does not lie to us." The authors dismiss the other interpretation--that Carter is just another hack politician in the Bilboesque tradition--in a series of short clauses and brief references...
...distressed head--and is equally the crowning stylistic accomplishment of Golding's narrative. Matty asks: "Can it be that what I am for is something to do with children?" Quickly we realize that Golding is up to his old tricks again, leading us through a labyrinth of original sin, passing characters stained with the blackness of humanity along...