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Editorial

Being Human

by Rick Lewis

“Unhand me, grey-beard loon.”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In a clearing on the edge of the woods, a flying saucer stands on spindly legs among the still-smouldering vegetation. A door slides open, light spills out, and a green face with three eyes peers at the gaggle of fearful spectators below and asks them: “What is it like to be a human being?” This is also one of the main questions being asked in the themed section of this very issue.

You might protest that this is the one thing that you don’t need anybody to tell you.

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