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  sammee

  René Cutforth 1909 – 1984) was a British broadcaster and writer.

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  Rene Cutforth, a pupil at Denstone: He was entirely bored at his prep school at the age of eleven; maths, history, science, cricket all left him with nothing except a vague anxiety, and then ... It happened on a school country run ... ' I was leaning against a gate, getting my breath back, when I suddenly saw in the mud patch under the gate a piece of stone washed clear by the rain ... 'Oh sir,' I said, 'what's this?' 'That's an ammonite,' said mr Johnson, puffing and blowing, 'a fossil shell. Very old, used to live here when all this land was under the sea, a long time ago.' 'Before the Romans and Ancient Britons?' I asked. 'Oh long before, about sixty million years ago, before there were any men at all', he said ... I don't know why this revelation of the huge continuity of the past should have been such a release to my imagination, but it was. (Order to View. by Rene Cutforth 1969)

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