Hunger Strike; 'Body Worlds' Will Stimulate Your Imagination-and Your Appetite.

Philadelphia Weekly › August 05, 2009

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I couldn't help thinking of the speech Satan makes in Time Bandits. If he'd been in charge of creation, says Satan, "I would have started with lasers, 8 o'clock, day one!" Damn straight. And shiny stainless-steel robot bodies with USB ports, external wombs and downloadable digital "souls." That's intelligent design. What we've actually got is madness on flesh stilts.

After eye-gorging on all that "plastinated" human muscle tissue, I felt incredibly hungry. Well, that's not strictly true. What I actually felt was a craving for flesh so strong I would've eaten my grandmother's raw brains had they been the only meat available. Instead I rushed into one of Brick Lane's many Bangladeshi restaurants and wolfed down a beef curry with a gusto that bordered on maniacal.

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Hunger Strike; 'Body Worlds' Will Stimulate Your Imagination-and Your Appetite.

A year or so ago in London's Brick Lane district I attended "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies"--the same sh...

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