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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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The startling eyeballs are props from a comic-horror movie
What does the highlighted sentence mean? Does it mean that eyeballs of dead people are reminiscent of those that are used in horror movies? or does it say that "the eyeballs that you see here have been taken from the back stage of a horror movie"?
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As A. S. Byatt has observed in her story Body Art, skulls always smile. The startling eyeballs are props from a comic-horror movie and the specimen bones await the meddling of medical students in a world where death is desecrate, bodies objects – perhaps a reminder, too, of the hidden history of grave-robbing for anatomical purposes.
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As A. S. Byatt has observed in her story Body Art, skulls always smile. The startling eyeballs are props from a comic-horror movie and the specimen bones await the meddling of medical students in a world where death is desecrate, bodies objects – perhaps a reminder, too, of the hidden history of grave-robbing for anatomical purposes.
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It is not possible to be certain just from the text you have quoted whether they have literally been used as props in an actual movie or are just reminiscent of that. My guess would be the latter.
- It is not possible to be certain just from the text you have quoted whether they have literally been used as props in an actual movie or are just reminiscent of that.
- My guess would be the latter.
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It is not possible to be certain just from the text you have quoted whether they have literally been used as props in an actual movie or are just reminiscent of that. My guess would be the latter.
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