Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

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The Flower That Laughs

The Flower That Laughs

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Some months ago, on a trek through a tropical wood with my wife, our guide stopped to show us a strange shrub with pink-purple pompom flowers, the Mimosa Podia, a rather ordinary looking plant with a rather extraordinary survival mechanism: when threatened, it pretends to die. Its leaves wither, dry and turn brown. When the danger has passed, the leaves…

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