Re: oldest American skull found!

From: pwilson (pwilson78_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/10/04


Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:10:27 -0400

Erik A. Mattila emattila@oco.net wrote:
>
[...]
>Yes, and I get the creeps looking at Egyptian mummies too. It's
>probably the "creeps" because of my own internal conflict - on the one
>hand it fascinating (and probably perverse) but on the other hand the
>idea that the "long sleep" has been violated. It's like seeing animals
>working out their angst in a zoo cage - little behaviors that only serve
>to make incarceration bearable.

So you equate the plight of caged animals with the 'plight' of mummies on
display in a museum?

That's bizzare. And kind of demented.



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