Gravity Collapse » musings http://www.gravitycollapse.com from Marc's brain to yours Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:35:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Skin and bones http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/10/skin-and-bones http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/10/skin-and-bones#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:54:47 +0000 gravitycollapse http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/10/skin-and-bones You know, for all our pontification and theorizing and building, the fact remains, we’re all just a bunch of gunk stuck onto a skeletal foundation. All of us from kings to the unemployed, from skinny super models to obese computer technicians to beefy bodybuilders…we’re all just skin and bones.

Some of us, though, are more skin and bones than others. I don’t mean this in the normal sense of the term: not in a skinny way; rather, it’s more like a quality of construction way. Most of us, our bones, our skin, our fat and muscle; it all synthesizes into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. We look at them and we see a person, not mere skin and bone.

But then there are others that when you look at them, if you look closely, you can really see the skin hanging off the bone. You can see the shape of the skull, the face clinging on like a person clinging for dear life on the edge of a cliff. You can immediately see through them, dissecting without the need of a knife, neatly separating them into their component parts, in your mind.

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