“What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?”
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Updike, J. (n.d.). What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? [Quotation]. Famous Quotations Network. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/37803-what-more-fiendish-proof-of-cosmic-irresponsibility-than/
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Updike, John. “What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?” Famous Quotations Network, https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/37803-what-more-fiendish-proof-of-cosmic-irresponsibility-than/. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
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Updike, John. “What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?” Famous Quotations Network. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/37803-what-more-fiendish-proof-of-cosmic-irresponsibility-than/.