Jim Henderson wrote:
> Looks like something we need to add to the reading list. :-)

It's funny mainly because of the way it's told. She's a reporter 
basically investigating how donated corpses are used. What happens when 
you donate your body to science?  But imagine Stephen Wright telling it.

Like my favorite line: They're in the field, the author, the head of the 
facility, and Ron the chauffeur. They're walking around looking at the 
bodies decaying, the ones the police set out so they can document the 
differences between a body they find that's three days old and five days 
old. (You know, like when they ask the "estimated time of death"? That's 
how they know. :-)  So they look at one, and it's crawling with maggots. 
And the author writes "If you put your face up close (and I don't 
recommend this), you can hear them making a crackling noise, like rice 
krispies. I tell the director 'it sounds like rice krispies.'  Ron turns 
a bit green.  Ron used to like rice krispies."

It still makes me giggle uncontrollably, just writing that. "Ron used to 
like rice krispies."

But the entire book contains gems like that. "He had interesting bottles 
of scent, used to train search dogs. They say the dogs can smell a bit 
of body six months after it's been sealed in concrete. I opened a small 
vial marked 'cadaverine', wondering what it was like. After we opened 
the windows, turned on the fan, and went out for some coffee, my host 
explained how it is they train the dogs."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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