I WANT WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
— Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

I.Angels and Superheroes

In 2008, Samuel O. Poore, a plastic surgeon who teaches at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school, published an article in the Journal of Hand Surgery titled “The Morphological Basis of the Arm-to-Wing Transition.” Drawing on evolutionary and anatomical evidence, he laid out a workable method for using the techniques of modern reconstructive surgery, includ...