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The Daily Stoic
The book is about a person's experience with illness and how observing a snail helped her cope and find meaning during a difficult time.
there's a fantastic book that's been written I think it's called it's the sound of a snail eating and it was a one who was a really unwell and she um like to the extent she really could not get out of...
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The book is about a person's experience with illness and how observing a snail helped her cope and find meaning during a difficult time.
there's a fantastic book that's been written I think it's called it's the sound of a snail eating and it was a one who was a really unwell and she um like to the extent she really could not get out of bed for a considerable period of time and someone gave her a plant and did not know there was a snail on it and every day she observed this snail and she wrote this beautiful book about it because um she you know the snail then reproduced and she can i like learn about all the but the sound that it makes when it eats and the thousands of rows of teeth and wove that into her own story and you can see that this snail in a way gave her life and it's extraordinary because she was pulled out of herself at a time when she didn't really want to inhabit herself