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Letter: The search for roots of stories

Published 2 December 2015

From Jill Charles

I enjoyed your articles on the fantastic voyages followed by various atoms and molecules (14 November, p 30). It would have been good, though, when tracing these histories, to acknowledge a debt to Primo Levi’s book The Periodic Table – in particular the short story Carbon.
London, UK

Issue no. 3050 published 5 December 2015

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