Frederick Chopin was a Polish composer in the Romantic style who was obsessed with ladybugs, often letting dozens of them gallop over his neck, arms, and long tapering fingers while playing the piano.

New resonances emerge, and new melodies of insight, not just into the nature of Chopin, but also the art of composing, the history of the ladybug as a good-luck charm, and coleopteraphilia. It also finally explains how Chopin solved his terrible aphid problem.

John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise