The Midwich Cuckoos

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by John Wyndham


  ‘… doctor will tell you, a matter of a few weeks, or months, at best. So no bitterness, my own love.

  ‘As to this – well, we have lived so long in a garden that we have all but forgotten the commonplaces of survival. It was said: Si fueris Romae, Romani vivito more, and quite sensibly, too. But it is a more fundamental expression of the same sentiment to say: If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does….’

 

 

 


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