That’s what Coates’s book The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is about. The title comes from the French phrase l’heure entre chien et loup—the twilight hour where it becomes difficult to distinguish a dog from a wolf. Metaphorically, the phrase refers to the physical transformation we go through when we’re confronted with a substantial amount of risk. Especially when we encounter novel, uncertain situations—“when a correlation between events breaks down or a new pattern emerges, when something is just not right, this primitive part of the brain registers the change long before conscious
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