Volume 29, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1983
The Corpse in the Elevator
By Richard C. Lewontin
Against Biological Determinism
Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
Allison and Busby, distributed by Schocken, 184 pp., $14.95; $8.95 (paper)
Towards a Liberatory Biology
Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
Allison and Busby, distributed by Schocken, 161 pp., $14.95; $8.95 (paper)
There is a story about a wonder-rabbi, who on his deathbed whispers to his chief assistant, 'Life is like a bagel.' The word spreads through the crowd waiting outside the rabbi's house, 'Life is like a bagel; the rabbi says life is like a bagel,' until finally, at the edge of the crowd, it reaches the town fool, who asks, 'What does it mean: life is like a bagel?' The question spreads back through the crowd, 'What does it mean, life is like a bagel?' until it reaches the bedside of the rabbi. 'Rabbi,' his assistant asks, 'What does it mean, life is like a bagel?' 'Nu,' the rabbi says, weakly shrugging his shoulders, 'so life is not like a bagel.'
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