For the next four days, the teachers have organised a series of Subject Days for us to learn outside of school, at various places. We will be sharing our experiences with you through a series of posts. This is day one.
The Germans have done it again! First there was Josef Mengele, and now some Hugen Pugen guy has made a breakthrough in the morbid science of preserving corpses.
Blackened lungs, eviscerated bodies, human leather, a twisted spinal cord, partially developed fetuses, all beautifully plastified for the world to see. Cannibal corpse lyrics coursed through my mind as I stared at all the gruesome yet somehow artistically enchanting displays. The sheer beauty of the human body, the ligaments, blood vessels, muscles, and tiny strands of thread controlling the body like a highly intricate puppet lay out to see. The sheer mystery, intellectual depth, ahhhhh~~~
Hey dude, you can see up his anus. Hurhurhur.
My intellectual artistic thoughts dispersed into wisps of thin air the moment that comment was made. Who was I kidding? Intellectual artistic views weren’t for a testosterone fueled alpha male such as me. That sentence sparked off an animalistic instinct to involuntarily try and look up every single bodily orifice I could find on the following exhibits. Boy, were they dark.
The exhibition was truly amazing. And this time, they brought in preserved animals too. You could see Santa’s two friends and a huge giraffe with a phallus of such size it incited a bunch of giggles and low pitched chuckles from a group of students. There was also a giant squid, which tickled my imagination. You could create sotong rings (Calamari, for those ang moh kias out there) of radius 5cm. Alas, some things are too good to be true. Giant squiddies are high in ammonium content, making them inedible.
And that concludes my highly uneducational findings for a highly educational exhibit.
One last thing. Don’t smoke. It blackens your lungs.