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sugar-dusted battles
and Goat each with their own dreams and worries
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai
eager to seem normal
and yet a stronger and more cohesive community than most of us can now imagine
Metamorphosis : A Natural and Human History by Oren Harman sugar-dusted battlesMetamorphosis has always been one of biology's greatest wonders and toughest riddles. To emerge a butterfly, a caterpillar dissolves inside its chrysalis and builds a brand new brain, wings and legs. Why all this destruction and remodelling? Why all this wasted energy and time? Oren Harman beautifully unfurls the untold story of metamorphosis across two millennia, asking why it has obsessed and inspired us so profoundly. Along the way we meet poets,
