Some time ago I read a short story by Roald Dahl called “Royal Jelly.” It’s the tale of a father desperately searching for ways to save his malnourished infant daughter who refuses her mother’s milk. This man is an apiarist, and while looking for answers, he picks up the latest article on royal jelly—the microbial mix that honeybees feed to their larva when they want to raise a new queen.
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Excerpt from The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The works of Philip Roth have caused a lot of controversy, but it would be hard to deny that the following excerpt from his novel The Ghost Writer is a very detailed and accurate description of the writing process...