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Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
Even so, that first cut, running from the nape of the neck down to the small of the back, is unforgettable. The scalpel is so sharp it doesn’t so much cut the skin as unzip it, revealing the hidden and forbidden sinew beneath, and despite your preparation, you are caught unawares, ashamed and excited. Cadaver dissection is a medical rite of passage and a trespass on the sacrosanct, engendering a legion of feelings: from revulsion, exhilaration, nausea, frustration, and awe to, as time passes, the mere tedium of academic exercise. Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite
stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
what is the meaning of this part " here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite
stimulant, so you also crave a burrito." are these sentences separated?
stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
what is the meaning of this part " here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite
stimulant, so you also crave a burrito." are these sentences separated?
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This is the sentence. It is a single sentence, not two. Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
- This is the sentence.
- It is a single sentence, not two.
- Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
- A fundamental taboo in many human societies is the violation of a dead person by mutilating the body.
- The chemical formaldehyde is used for preserving flesh, usually in labs, but more recently in art.
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This is the sentence. It is a single sentence, not two.
Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
A fundamental taboo in many human societies is the violation of a dead person by mutilating the body.
The chemical formaldehyde is us
Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
A fundamental taboo in many human societies is the violation of a dead person by mutilating the body.
The chemical formaldehyde is us
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On the one hand, you are doing something very, very serious (ie cutting into a person's body, but on the other hand you are doing something very ordinary (ie feeling hungry.).
These two things are oddly incongruous.
These two things are oddly incongruous.
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