From CARL DJERASSI
This is a brief, but to me important, correction to Pratap Chatterjee’s
Forum piece (1 June).
In the first sentence, he has me devoting my literary attention to ‘the
great unwashed scientific masses’. I may be an intellectual snob, as stated
by Chatterjee, but such words would really have me cross the border into
arrogance. I said that my ‘science-in-fiction’ is addressed to ‘the (great)
scientifically unwashed masses’, because my principal interest is to use
my fiction to disclose our tribal behaviour to non-scientists.
Carl Djerassi Stanford University California, US
