Image caption, Dippy-in-Dorset photo ____ - a love Jurassic Park's author found it hard to ____. Dr Tattersdill rejects the same concepts as Crichton, but still thinks he can ____ some light on our love for here-and-not-here ____ - and it might be partly to ____ with those ____ interests, science and literature, which at first sound an ____ mix. From this position, he fans ____ to think more about our ____. He thinks about nostalgia. But it is a special kind; a turned-up-to-11 kind. Here, ____ factors combine for a ____ down memory ____ that comes in not at a personal level, but a species-____ one. "Dinosaurs mean a ____ for the past," Dr Tattersdill says. "For the deep past of the Earth, but also one's own childhood and finally, 19th Century history when dinosaurs became part of human culture. "Dinosaurs let you experience both human culture and natural history. And that's a very ____ thing." Another factor is to do with the ____ to museums for bones, rather than Loch Ness with its whispers of the living. Nessie is a concept about which we can get ____, but while open to theory, it ____ worse for proof. But the ____-sounding monsters ____ the Earth? That happened. This rare collision of the fantastic and fact, the crazy and the evidenced, is, Dr Tattersdill thinks, attractive to us. And it is this in ____, he says, that feeds ____ into that ____ he's spotted; the here-and-not-here; the mystery and reality, between which the lines for ownership are drawn. It's a situation, then, not just about the ____ footprints but the mark we ____ to let them leave on us; that while dinosaurs are facts, they also happen in heads - they are an idea; "purely imaginative", Dr Tattersdill says, "and intensely scientific". Dinosaurs are at once really unreal and unbelievably true. And even ____ they once ____ the Earth, they belong to us with a ____ come-on of "I'll be whatever you want me to be". Now, isn't that something we can get our ____ into?

WEEK 1 - missing words - part 2

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