When people talk of life changing books, we might imagine a book with a celebrity sword sheen. I know it does come in simple books too. Reading 'The Sound of Wild Snail Eating' by Elisabeth tova Bailey, I could imagine the world many times bigger than me, fumble through it without my dominant eye sense.
The author compares a bed-ridden displaced phase of her life to a snail brought from a woodlands by her friend. Watching it, she soons gets attached to it and reads up on snails. At points when I thought why isnt the author naming the snail after owning it truly by calling 'mine', theres an explanation for that. When I wondered what would happen if it came onto a sharp object. The author says that the snails skill in passing the razor test is being used in surgery . We are there with her as all of this is happening. This makes the journey vicarious for the reader.
If you dont know much about snails like me then you will appreciate that all that water work left behind on the trail needs to be made by someone - the snail. Countless teeth. Dental Nightmare.
Now reading of Liliputs and Gulliver can be done in a new light.
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