Second Body Hildyard Daisy Paperback
Second Body Hildyard Daisy Paperback To be a living thing is to exist in two bodies. Your first body is the place you live in, made out of your own personal skin. You breathe something in, and what…
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Second Body Hildyard Daisy Paperback
To be a living thing is to exist in two bodies. Your first body is the place you live in, made out of your own personal skin. You breathe something in, and what you breathe out is something else.
In this timely and elegant essay, Daisy Hildyard attempts to capture the second body by looking at it as a part of animal life. Your second body is not so solid as the other one, but much larger. She meets Richard, a butcher in Yorkshire, and sees pigs turned into boiled ham; and Gina, an environmental criminologist, who tells her about leopards and silver foxes kept as pets in luxury apartments.
She speaks to Luis, a biologist, about the origins of life; and talks to Nadezhda about fungi in an effort to understand how we define animal life. In her own interactions with other animals, she examines how humans and animals engage with one another, or fail to. Eventually, her second body comes to
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