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by
dmd
Thu Oct 12 2000 at 18:13:56
Compare:
Shakespeare
,
Hamlet
:
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how
infinite
in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an
angel
! in
apprehension
, how like a god! the
beauty
of the
world
! the
paragon
of
animal
s!
Neal Stephenson
,
Cryptonomicon
:
The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big
sack of guts
and
fluid
s so highly compressed that it will squirt for a few yards when pierced. Each one is built around an armature of 206
bone
s connected to each other by notoriously fault-prone joints that are given to obnoxious
creak
ing,
grind
ing, and
pop
ping noises when they are in other than pristine condition. This structure is draped with
throbbing
steak
, inflated with clenching air sacks, and pierced by a
Gordian
sewer filled with burbling acid and compressed gas and asquirt with vile enzymes and solvents produced by the many dark, gamy nuggets of
genetically programmed
meat
strung along its length. Slugs of dissolving food are forced down this sloppy
labyrinth
by serialized
convulsion
s, decaying into gas, liquid, and solid matter which must all be regularly vented to the outside world lest the owner go toxic and drop dead. Spherical, gel-packed
camera
s swivel in
mucus
-greased ball joints. Infinite phalanxes of
cilia
beat back invading particles, encapsulate them in goo for later disposal. In each body a centrally located muscle flails away at an eternal, circulating torrent of
pressurized
gravy.
pointed out by Beth
The Human Anatomy
Evidence for lack of intelligent design in humans
Human body composition
Why don't men shave?
camera
Visible Human Project
Auctions for genitalia
nervous system
body
Intangible Memory
Brahman and the fractal nature of the universe due to the chaotic nature of string theory
hypertext systems
physical
Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary
respiratory system
Human Skeletal Muscles
surgically enhanced
Paragon
Cryptonomicon
Shiva
grind
fluid
Neal Stephenson
Walking in circles