Life
The neck is lower than 1 per cent of the human physique’s floor space, but it surely performs an outsized position in our lives, reveals Kent Dunlap’s participating pure and cultural historical past
By Elle Hunt
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The Neck
Kent Dunlap (College of California Press)
The late author and filmmaker Nora Ephron famously felt dangerous about her neck. Ephron’s concern, as expressed in her best-known essay I Really feel Dangerous About My Neck, was ageing, and the neck particularly as a “lifeless give-away” of the passage of time. The visibility of the world and “the reality” it uncovered was trigger, for Ephron, to cowl up with turtlenecks and scarves.
For Kent Dunlap, a biologist at Trinity…
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