{"product_id":"2940013090446","title":"THE PARASITE","description":"THE PARASITE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarch 24.  The spring is fairly with us now.  Outside my laboratory\u003cbr\u003ewindow the great chestnut-tree is all covered with the big, glutinous,\u003cbr\u003egummy buds, some of which have already begun to break into little green\u003cbr\u003eshuttlecocks.  As you walk down the lanes you are conscious of the\u003cbr\u003erich, silent forces of nature working all around you.  The wet earth\u003cbr\u003esmells fruitful and luscious.  Green shoots are peeping out everywhere.\u003cbr\u003eThe twigs are stiff with their sap; and the moist, heavy English air is\u003cbr\u003eladen with a faintly resinous perfume.  Buds in the hedges, lambs\u003cbr\u003ebeneath them--everywhere the work of reproduction going forward!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI can see it without, and I can feel it within.  We also have our\u003cbr\u003espring when the little arterioles dilate, the lymph flows in a brisker\u003cbr\u003estream, the glands work harder, winnowing and straining.  Every year\u003cbr\u003enature readjusts the whole machine.  I can feel the ferment in my blood\u003cbr\u003eat this very moment, and as the cool sunshine pours through my window I\u003cbr\u003ecould dance about in it like a gnat.  So I should, only that Charles\u003cbr\u003eSadler would rush upstairs to know what was the matter.  Besides, I\u003cbr\u003emust remember that I am Professor Gilroy.  An old professor may afford\u003cbr\u003eto be natural, but when fortune has given one of the first chairs in\u003cbr\u003ethe university to a man of four-and-thirty he must try and act the part\u003cbr\u003econsistently.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082208657648,"sku":"2940013090446","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013090446_p0.jpg?v=1763576761","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013090446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}