“It was not so much the book The Origin of Species as the talk about it that created such a stir.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.comTagged: The Medium Is The Message?, Do Words Matter?
“Charles Darwin’s dad nudged him into marrying in his perfectly nice, if plain, thirty-year-old spinster first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and bought them a country place and settled enough money on him for the boy to live well forever and ever. Living well included eight or nine servants— a butler, a coo…”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.comTagged: Darwin Was A Dumb Rich Guy?, Darwin (The Bro)
“Wallace put his discovery of all discoveries— the origin of species by natural selection— into the hands of a group of distinguished British Gentlemen.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com