1873

Twins were born that year, unlikely twins, the typewriter and the chromosome. The one an invention, the other a discovery. The invention was more evidently beautiful, designed, ornate, a carrier of language on the full moons of its keys. The chromosome was the silent younger sister, who contained a more dangerous, secret language. She was a soothsayer, she was a scroll, much like the one that is inserted into the tabeez and strung around the neck of a child. Only this scroll did not protect, it decreed..the long cell called the DNA, would tell the organism what was ordained for it, what kind of life it must live.

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Typewriter. Discovery of chromosomes.

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A church stood, dazzling as a bell. The father , after a while, turns to the ghats.