
Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Water Is the Most Fundamental Tenets of Science
Your emotions are not important in science, nor are your political views. I really don't see how drinking water can alter your politics or temper your passions. But there are drugs designed to tranquilise. We use them for schizophrenia and manic depression. Are you suggesting that the government, that is too absurd, it is unscientific? What about the analysis of the water? The floating dots. Water has never been pure. For thousands of years, we have managed with impure water. It's only in the last 100 years that we have had the technology to refine it. You were the prettiest girl in the whole university. Did you know that? We all considered it a special privilege
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