Weren’t there naive arts and sophisticated arts? And corrup… - Walter Tevis

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Weren’t there naive arts and sophisticated arts? And corrupt arts as well? And might that not be true of the sciences too? Could chemistry be more corrupt than botany? But that wasn’t so. It was the uses, the ends…

Walter Tevis

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Walter Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Alternative Names: Walter S. Tevis • Walter Stone Tevis

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