Dust To Dust

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Aug 16 09

by Patrick Appel A sublime bit from a London Review of Books article on An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu: Man and other animals feed on the substance of their predecessors, because human bodies turn to dust and... Full story...

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