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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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Animals
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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