CHAPTER I - THE RADIANT HOUR-4

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MAURY: All right. What's the fundamental principle of biology? DICK: You don't know yourself. MAURY: Don't hedge! DICK: Well, natural selection? MAURY: Wrong. DICK: I give it up. MAURY: Ontogony recapitulates phyllogony. FIFTH YOUNG MAN: Take your base! MAURY: Ask you another. What's the influence of mice on the clover crop? (Laughter.) FOURTH YOUNG MAN: What's the influence of rats on the Decalogue? MAURY: Shut up, you saphead. There is a connection. DICK: What is it then? MAURY: (Pausing a moment in growing disconcertion) Why, let's see. I seem to have forgotten exactly. Something about the bees eating the clover. FOURTH YOUNG MAN: And the clover eating the mice! Haw! Haw! MAURY: (Frowning) Let me just think a minute. DICK: (Sitting up suddenly) Listen! (A volley of chatt

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