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Yorick's New Skull6/09/2007 11:54:05The other day during a moment of melancholy (!) I came across on Google Video this video of a human autopsy. It is extremely graphic, so please decide to watch it with discretion. The images have been stuck in my mind, especially in these last few difficult days before returning to Washington at the end of my first year in Santa Barbara. It draws to mind, also, the wonderful cover illustration on a copy of Hamlet that was my father's, which I wish I had with me to share with you. The picture, of course, is of Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorick, who in life had been his court jester. - I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorrīd in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissīd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chop-fallīn? Now I don't know what more there is to say about the question, it seems to be a to-each-his-or-her-own. In seeing those organs pour out of this woman's stomach, though, there is something of the really infinite miracle of living as well as its hilarious horror. |
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