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He had a huge penis, a gifted girth. Blond hair, too.

I wonder about him--who he was, if he had loved ones. Whoever he was, he had a soul. It really brought it home for me. Whatever personality is, whatever the soul is, we inhabit these bags of meat for a time, like the packages at the supermarket, and then we die and all we are is flesh.
When you die, your lungs shrink to about the size of a pork loin.

I thank him, whoever he was, for helping me to understand the difference between visceral and parietal serosa. I had to correct my professor when he called the peritoneum the pericardium. That could happen to anybody.

Incidentally, I know not everybody wants to hear about guts n' stuff, so you know, if that's not you, let me know, and I'll get some help making a filter for those with tender sensibilities.


Music:: Placebo - Haemoglobin
Mood:: 'pleased' pleased
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posted by [identity profile] wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com at 05:13am on 02/03/2009
I can read about it, but I don't want to look, thanks.

And a poem for your cadaver:

As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
The rolling in money,
The screamingly funny,
And those who are very well hung.

-- W. H. Auden
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posted by [identity profile] alibi-shop.livejournal.com at 03:25pm on 02/03/2009
Not to detract from the gentleman's good qualities, but the large endowment was not necessarily present during life; it's a common side effect of embalming.
 
posted by [identity profile] aquenigmatic.livejournal.com at 07:08pm on 02/03/2009
Ah! I wondered that! Thank you so much. Well, he's certainly well remembered (no pun intended).
 
posted by [identity profile] miirica.livejournal.com at 04:07am on 03/03/2009
I hope to be a similar meat sack on a table someday far in the future, with some student saying - look at those tattoos, man, that old lady had quite the ink on her.

Amazing how fast who we were disappears from the body, and only the markers of how we used the body are left. It's an amazing freaking world, isn't it?

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