Sorry it has been so long since my last post. I've been slacking. I got a summer job and have neglected to update this as often as I would like to. I promise the blog isn't dying. I'm going to pick it up and update more often. Come mid-late August, I will be settled back in school and posting more regularly.
Anyways...
Yesterday I went to the unique exhibit "Body Worlds" at Discovery Place in downtown Charlotte. I meandered between the dead, skinned, human bodies suspended forever in action poses, with my trusty audio guide stuck to the side of my head. I looked in awe at the Ichabod Crane-esque dead man riding the dead horse with his brain in one hand, the horse's in another. I witnessed an array of dead fetuses; one still inside its mother's womb.
In other words, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Not to sound sick or anything....
There were informative plaques and posters hanging from each wall that gave interesting tid-bits. My personal favorite were a few quotes, the speakers of which elude me (sorry), on the topic of death. One was something to the affect of "I have come to realize that death is absolutely normal while life is the exception" and the other was about how if one mourns the dead, then why not mourn the unborn?
These quotes, mixed with the motionless dead bodies tastefully dancing around the room, got me thinking about the subject of death.
As for the actual Body World exhibit, I thought it was pretty well done, aside from the audio guide's weakness towards the end of the exhibit.
I reccomend checking it out, as I usually do.
No comments:
Post a Comment