Thursday, July 22

four years ago i found some sort of god in the vitreous humor of a cow's eyeball. slowly god started to show up in other areas that semester: in the lympatic system, osetoslasts, cerebrums, & mast cells-especially mast cells. "it" (assuming no pronoun is really applicable to god) was everywhere in my notes, lab dissections, & even my lab partner who is still one of the most influential people i have ever had the pleasure of knowing. to paraphrase mrs duncan, if you disassembled a typewriter and shot it into orbit, what is the possibility that it would accurately reassemble in time for the next faulkner or hesse? i am reminded again as i refresh my anatomy-dedicated brain cells just how amazing and close to perfect the human body is. the efficiency of an epiglottis as it prepares for an incoming swallow, the immune system oh the immune system, the intricate patterns of a fetus's ebb and flow to a burst of sudden heart beat and palpations once it's tinybody meets the outside world, consciousness & the nondimensional memory, etc. this is not to say i do not believe in some evolution. as our jawlines narrow i am aware of what adaptations our bodies make in order to adjust to this environment. but evolution has not completely won me over- my neuroanatomy is a hook that keeps me attatched to the mountain.

posted by Jenny Thursday, July 22, 2004