vultures
‘the Rochester Bestiary’, England ca. 1230
BL, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 50r
Yarisal & Kublitz - Anger Release Machine, 2008
“Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.”
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Advertised as a medical miracle performed by doctors who had previously ran experiments of the same nature on animals, “The headless woman” was a popular sideshow attraction.
She would perform simple tasks, such as removing her gloves to show audiences that she was not a mannequin.
As her pale body rotted in the river,
It happened (very slowly) that God forgot her,
First her face, her hands, at last her hair.
Then she was carrion with the carrion in the water. — Bertolt Brecht, ‘Concerning A Drowned Girl’ from Selected Poems: Bertolt Brecht (via my-nothing-self)
It happened (very slowly) that God forgot her,
First her face, her hands, at last her hair.
Then she was carrion with the carrion in the water. — Bertolt Brecht, ‘Concerning A Drowned Girl’ from Selected Poems: Bertolt Brecht (via my-nothing-self)
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