I went to see the "Body Worlds" exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota last night. It's one of those things I can't fully explain, but it's really worth seeing. I could give you a blow by blow description but I think it would take away from the experience for you.
The exhibit really confronts one with the reality that all our love & desire, reason & intellect, wit & humor springing up and out of these complicated little "machines" will turn into dust & wormfood (or plastic in this case).
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in 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 animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so."
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare
For those of you who heard my questions before seeing the exhibit ... yes, there are genitals. They weren't jarring in the way I expected them to be.
