"L'Engle, Madeleine - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

"It's okay with cream cheese and onion."

They put their various ingredients on the kitchen coun-
ter and cut thick slices of bread fresh from the oven.
Dennys peered in to sniff apples slowly baking. Sandy
looked over to the kitchen table, where Meg had spread
out her books and papers. "She's taken more than her fair
share of the table."

"She's in college," Dennys depended. "We don't have as
much homework as she does."

"Yeah, and I'd hate that long commute every day."

"She likes to drive. And at least she gees home early."
Dennys plunked his own books down on the big table.

Sandy stood looking at one of Meg's open notebooks.
"Hey, listen to this. Do you suppose we'll have this kind of
junk when we're in college? /( seems quite evident that
there was definite prebiotic existence of protein ancestors
of polymers, and that therefore the primary beings were
not a-amino adds. I suppose she knows what she's writing
about. I haven't the foggiest."

Dennys flipped back a page. "Look at her title. The
Million Doller question: the chicken or the egg, amino

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acids or their polymers. She may be a mathematical genius,
but she still can't spell."

"You mean, you know what she's writing about?" Sandy
demanded.

"I have a pretty good idea. It's the kind of thing Mother
and Dad argue about at dinnerЧpolymers, virtual parti-
cles, quasars, all that stuff."

Sandy looked at his twin. "You mean, you listen?"

"Sure. Why not? You never know when a little useless
knowledge is going to come in handy. Hey, what's this
book? It's about bubonic plague. I'm the one who wants to
be a doctor."

Sandy glanced over. "It's history, not medicine, stupe."

"Hey, why are lawyers never bitten by snakes?" Dennys