If you are losing your zest because of gloomy weather these days, I recommend this book, Animal Days to you. You might expect a boring list about animal information, but is not that at all. Contrary to that boring zoological title as an autobiography, this book contains what happened in the author’s half a century. In this book, there are many stories of Morris that normal people cannot even imagine. Can you believe that all these sentences are described by one person? There is a young joker who jumped onto the lecture desk imitating all kinds of postures and movements of the English bat, a surrealist follower who amazed all citizens by locating the skull of the elephant on the main street, a soldier who was an officer candidate by once friendly assistance to boss’s wife despite several problems. Also, there is an animal behaviorist who created the great buzz in the art world by organizing an exhibition of chimpanzee art, a curator of London Zoo who went to Russia for mating of pandas during the Cold War and was mistaken for a spy because of its unconvincing sexual purpose. I also couldn’t believe it before I read it. However, throughout the book, this jolly crazy scientist Morris was saying, “Scientists are not ‘hikicomoris’! We can be funny!” Someday, when you get tired of the foolish TV programs and want to recover your smile, how about reaching for Animal Days? I confidently guarantee you that there are a few authors who can prove the sentence ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’.BY Shin Eun-ji
Sophomore, Department of Commerce and Trade
