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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • En general, puras weas: espasmos musculares, cosas así. Sin embargo, hubo un tipo que finalmente encontró un resultado interesante cuando pudo experimentar con una cabeza recién decapitada:

    Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds…[and] ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs,…exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession… It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice, “Languille!” I then saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction…such as happens in   everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next Languille’s eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks. I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out. It was at that point that I called out again, and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time… I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement—and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead…

    Probablemente no signifique nada. Cuesta creer que el tipo haya estado consciente con su cabeza cortada a puras transfusiones charchas.


  • A propósito de restos óseos, hoy terminé de escuchar Stiff, por Mary Roach. Hace Una revisión de todos los caminos posibles que pueden seguir los cadáveres humanos: donación a la ciencia, putrefacción, alternativas a la cremación, etc., a lo largo de la historia. Un libro lleno de datos freak y sorprendente chistoso.

    Aunque no tiene mucho fondo, está bueno para recopilar datos morbosos. Por ejemplo, que se hicieron toda clase de experimentos para determinar la ubicación del alma en el cuerpo, como cuando usaron una cabeza recién cortada por la guillotina y con inyecciones de sangre de perro fresca se la mantuvo viva para ver si reaccionaba cuando llamaban al decapitado por su nombre. Muchos detalles escabrosos.