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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

Go to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, I'm very excited. As you all know, it's our drive show, and we're going to be talking about T.C. Boyle's new book. It's a month before it comes

out. It's because I love this book. I've chosen it for you. I think it's one of the best books

T.C. Boyle has done. It's called When the Killings Done. And I think it's a book that brings together many of the themes that have animated

his books from the very beginning, whether we're talking about the descent of man or

water music, the books that have to do with Darwin, the evolution of the species, the

stupidity of the species, our need to control our environments and our

punishment for trying to. And you're going to get the chance to call in and get a book

before it's even in the bookstores, when the killings done by my guest, T.C. Boyle. Now, most of the books have epigraphs from Emerson or Thoreau.

But this time, I think it's sort of a book that comments on human destiny.

Well, Michael, after that wonderful introduction, thank you so much, why don't we just read them, the epigraph for that matter?

And it sort of sets the stage

for what this is all about. And God bless them. And God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply

and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over

the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth

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