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Nature, Gardens & Animals
'And So Ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects)
Josef Čapek and Clifford Bax Karel Čapek
51 pages~1 hr 1 min read6 chapters$1.99
The Capek brothers put humanity on stage as insects and let the mirror sting. Vain butterflies flirt through Act I, greedy creepers hoard through Act II, and militarized ants march to war in Act III. A satirical play that turns a beetle's world into a portrait of our own appetites. Sharp, strange, and still uncomfortably true.
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Inside this book
6 chapters
- 1‘And so ad infinitum’ (The Life of the Insects)
- 2PROLOGUE
- 3ACT I THE BUTTERFLIES
- 4ACT II CREEPERS AND CRAWLERS
- 5ACT III THE ANTS
- 6EPILOGUE DEATH AND LIFE
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