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Backwards Reaction. One of Spiegelman's checks was even more convincing. He reasoned that if the RNA had served as a template for DNA, the RNA wou'd be complementary to one strand of the DNA and should be able to join it, forming a double-stranded hybrid. He mixed minute amounts of both molecules and whirled them in a centrifuge for three days. Because the density of RNA is different from that of DNA, the strands gradually separated in the test tube, forming two distinct layers. To his delight there also appeared a third layer, which proved...
...look us up at the Strand, 'Cause we'll be playing Pelleas...
Bourgeois Vices. As the book opens, St. Joseph has chosen first to strand Shirley in Europe, a young widow with a small income and no skills, then to marry her into a family of French bourgeois vices. Philippe, Philippe's mother, Philippe's sister are all picayune, prosy, avaricious, suspicious, xenophobic, obsessed with pinching their pennies and palping their livers. They are only part of a larger Paris, drawn with fearful and totally remorseless accuracy, which becomes a tawdry circle of hell. The French whom Shirley meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans...
...Fowles(1) 3. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (3) 4. Deliverance, Dickey (7) 5. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (5) 6. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow (4) 7. A Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel (6) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (8) 9. The House on the Strand, du Maurier (9) 10. Local Anesthetic, Grass
...House on the Strand, du Maurier...