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Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude

1. VALLATUS INDICIBUS ATQUE SICARIIS Surrounded by Informers and Assassins

Like Water in Water

Into Your Hand They Are Delivered

Deciphering Deciphering

Prickly Porcupines and Docile Dogs

An ABC of Animals

If a Lion Had Hands

Quia Ego Nominor Leo

Taking Animals in Hand

2. RIDETO MULTUM ET DIGITUM PORRIGITO MEDIUM Laugh Loudly and Flip Them the Bird

Two Hands Are Better Than One

The Truth about Mice and Ducks

The Philosopher and the Gnat

The Birds and the Bees

The Back of a Tiger

3. MEDICO TESTICULI ARIETINI On the Ring Finger a Ram’s Testicles

The Digestive System of the Mind

An Unknown Something

Praying to the Aliens

Nothing to Phone Home About

From Noumena to Nebula

Those Who Like to Think So

One Ring to Rule Them All

4. DIGITO MINIMO MUNDUM UNIVERSUM EXCITES With Your Little Finger You Would Awaken the Whole World

The Eyes Have It

A Tale of Three Fish

Handing On and Gathering In

Bird Brains

Getting Stuck In

5. MANUS PARVA, MAIORI ADIUTRIX, POLLEX The Thumb Is a Little Hand, Assistant to the Greater

To We or Not to We

If I Had a Hammer

The Rule of Thumb

Four Hands Good, Two Hands Bad

Report to an Academy

Coda

Notes

Bibliography

Publication History and Permissions

Index