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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Lawler Literature 002:Human Cadavers, Animal Brains, and Shakespeare on Film


Lawler Literature is a feature in which I discuss books I've read, books I'm reading, books I've lent away, and books I've sold online as Lawler Books.

Here's an excerpt from Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach:

Outside the gate, we spend a long time scraping the bottoms of our boots on a curb. You don't have to step on a body to carry the smells of death with you on your shoes. For reasons we have just seen, the soil around a corpse is sodden with the liquids of human decay. pp. 69-70