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We are, he shows, so interfused with the environment that all life might be seen as a web of genes, and all minds a web of memes.

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The history and the taste of gin are interfused, ceaselessly, twist upon twist.

And naturalist Henry David Thoreau's observations of forest succession, species and weather became deeply interfused with Darwinian science.

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In math, kids must memorize words like apothem and Cartesian coordinate; in science they chant domain! kingdom! phylum! class! etc., etc., and meiosis and allele and daughter cell and third-class lever and the whole Tinkertoy edifice of terms that acts to draw people away from the freshness and surprise and fantastic interfused complexity of the world and darkens our brains with shadowy taxonomic abstractions.

“Nowhere, not even in Holland, where the correspondence between the real aspects and the little polished canvases is so constant and so exquisite, do art and life seem so interfused and, as it were, so consanguineous,” he and Mr. Fleming wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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