Comments on: Bodies® http://cassowary.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/bodies%c2%ae/ Compromising with the Mystery Tramp....Since 2006 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: colleen http://cassowary.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/bodies%c2%ae/#comment-2842 colleen Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:39:42 +0000 http://cassowary.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-2842 You spout sonnet like Rumi spouted quatrain. I agree with you on the subject. I think if a person wanted to donate his or her body to science to have this done for teaching is one thing, but a whole show of it is the worst kind of freak show, one in the horror genre. We had a new kind of poetry reading with some visiting poets you might like to check out at LL. Got next to no audience attendance on this event but it was a good first exchange of this type and the story will be in the Floyd Press, so that will help us build on for the future. After two years of plugging away at the spoken word open mic at the Cafe Del Sol, they are starting to pick up some good momentum on attendance. You spout sonnet like Rumi spouted quatrain. I agree with you on the subject. I think if a person wanted to donate his or her body to science to have this done for teaching is one thing, but a whole show of it is the worst kind of freak show, one in the horror genre.

We had a new kind of poetry reading with some visiting poets you might like to check out at LL. Got next to no audience attendance on this event but it was a good first exchange of this type and the story will be in the Floyd Press, so that will help us build on for the future.

After two years of plugging away at the spoken word open mic at the Cafe Del Sol, they are starting to pick up some good momentum on attendance.

]]> By: mrschili http://cassowary.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/bodies%c2%ae/#comment-2839 mrschili Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:26:54 +0000 http://cassowary.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-2839 I went to this exhibit last year when it was in Boston. I have to tell you that, despite my moral questioning about the process (and the manner in which the bodies are obtained), I was spellbound. While I am not a "bits-and-pieces" kind of girl - I believe that we are FAR more than the sum of our parts - it was still fascinating to see how those parts fit together to make the bodies housing our souls. Studying anatomy from books is one thing; seeing it as it really is is something else entirely. I went to this exhibit last year when it was in Boston. I have to tell you that, despite my moral questioning about the process (and the manner in which the bodies are obtained), I was spellbound. While I am not a “bits-and-pieces” kind of girl - I believe that we are FAR more than the sum of our parts - it was still fascinating to see how those parts fit together to make the bodies housing our souls. Studying anatomy from books is one thing; seeing it as it really is is something else entirely.

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