With each lightning strike, the frog's legs twitched and convulsed, as if they might hop and leap again, though the frog was dead. FEATURES The Dissection REMEMBER THE DAY THE FROGS ARRIVED. Because frog skin and a woman's uterus are permeable, both frogs and pregnant women are particularly susceptible to the poisons and toxicants with which we've flooded our habitats. If as children we saw a glistening-skinned frog as a wild, complex, and strange living being, a wholly unfathomable sensorium dif¬ferent than the human, one that beckoned us into curiosity about the mysterious web of relations into which our own life was woven, then the dissection of the frog marks the time we are told to put away childish things. [Extracted from the article]
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