Critical- A Natural History of the Senses

“The tiny ridges in our fingertips, whose roughness makes it easier for us to grasp objects, are randomly formed, resulting in the unique swirling weather systems we call “fingerprints.” (Ackerman 117)

Ackerman does it again. I cannot tell if the immense and hyperbolic description is engaging me or making me question how someone can really come up with this stuff. A fingerprint, a topic that to me seems so small, is transformed into a whole paragraph used to describe the touch of something. Maybe I am just having a bad day, but her anecdotes are dramatic and I am sure by the end of the book my annoyance with them may just grow to be unbearable.