Smakebit: Turtles All the Way Down

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Blev en sen smakbit idag, men bättre sent än aldrig? Jag har börjat läsa John Greens senaste bok, Turtles All the Way Down, som handlar om Aza som har fullt med tvångstankar. Har inte kommit så långt ännu, men hittills lovar det gott :)

     “Aren’t you listening?” Daisy asked. I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract. Of course I’d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn’t much like being reminded of it. By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. There are something like a thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often seems like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me. I wiped my sweaty palms on my jeans and tried to control my breathing. Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn’t irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony.

Fler smakbitar finns hos Mari. Ha en trevlig vecka!