A Dog's Heart Condition:Like New and The Language Instinct

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In Other Minds

A Dog's Heart Condition:Like New and The Language InstinctMikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world famous Moscow professor rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a