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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy Horror_Gift_Guide The Savage Detectives is aThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons hes learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scrapsincluding those eye blinking moments when