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September 8, 2008

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So. I just finished reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and here is the list of words, terms and names of interest, which I scribbled on a piece of Crown Plaza Hotel notepad-come-bookmark throughout my reading of the book:

intaglio
abattoir
charnel
fricatives
gleet
mien
stoat
pitch
ersatz
gibbets
Karen Greenlee*
Diego Rivera

*To read a truly disturbing interview with Greenlee, one of the most infamous necrophiliacs of all time, click here. I am NOT kidding about the disturbing part.

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