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Brian Aldiss - When the first flint, the first shell,...
When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. (Brian Aldiss)

When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him.

Brian Aldiss

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