What Holds It Together?

By Sonny Saggar

Planned book · Working title · No publication date announced

Bodies, relationships and societies depend on more than their parts. What keeps a whole together, and when is separation wiser?

A place to begin

A pile of bricks and a wall may contain similar pieces. Arrangement and connections change what the pieces can do.

A question worth arguing with

Which connections can be removed before the whole stops performing its function?

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Choose a recipe, a team or a chair. Identify one connection whose failure changes the whole.

This is a new introductory companion to the proposed book’s subject, not an extract from a completed manuscript.

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