It wasn’t easy to watch some parts of Love and Doves while listening to Jared Diamond’s book, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (Not that I was doing the two simultaneously.) Diamond explains how many epidemic diseases have arisen in human societies where people live in agricultural communities in close contact with domestic animals.
Maybe Alexander Mikhailov’s character was a one-of-a-kind, though. At least I had never before seen mouth-to-mouth contact with doves. Maybe it’s best that the actor hadn’t had a chance to read Diamond’s book before playing his role.
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