"I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder."
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Chapter 17, “The Answer That Was True—but STILL Didn’t Satisfy” (pp. 190-191)
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Andrew J. Offutt
Andrew J. Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and erotic fiction author.
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