Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental MemoirDuck Editions, 2000 - 337 pages A piece of confessional non-fiction, this 'accidental memoir' aims to shed new light on the Darwinian point of view. A descendent of Charles Darwin, Mathew Chapman grew up feeling intensely and hopelessly competitive with his ancestor. Tormented by a skin disease which disfigured him thoughout his youth, Chapman grew into a shy teenager, until cured, when he reunited himself with society in a most rampant and promiscuous way - ending up in Hollywood. |
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... write about the 1925 Scopes ' Monkey ' Trial , the trial of a schoolteacher accused of teaching evolu- tion in ... writing screenplays for ter years , two or three a year , each one overlapping the next , and had taker only one vacation ...
... write about the 1925 Scopes ' Monkey ' Trial , the trial of a schoolteacher accused of teaching evolu- tion in ... writing screenplays for ter years , two or three a year , each one overlapping the next , and had taker only one vacation ...
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... write I can no longer afford to . I write for the studios in Los Angeles . They pay , I deliver , they own . Nothing I create belongs to me . The scripts I write rarely become films and a screenplay , however well written , is only a ...
... write I can no longer afford to . I write for the studios in Los Angeles . They pay , I deliver , they own . Nothing I create belongs to me . The scripts I write rarely become films and a screenplay , however well written , is only a ...
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... write five pages before lunch . But the scholastic element is only a part of what I've come to envy . There's the social aspect . As Diogo writes : She saw me as we crossed . Across the bridge I saw her wink . It was the kind of thing ...
... write five pages before lunch . But the scholastic element is only a part of what I've come to envy . There's the social aspect . As Diogo writes : She saw me as we crossed . Across the bridge I saw her wink . It was the kind of thing ...
Contents
The End | 1 |
An Alligator Up My Arse In Roanoke Virginia | 10 |
The Menace Of Darwinism | 21 |
Copyright | |
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