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...the day even-tempered, goats nibbling at wild celery, their bells lazy, a fisherman waving at us as he cast his net, clouds over the mountain. I not... ...hrough the crowd to take the floor. Pittakos, with his rasping tongue and fish eyes—was there a more dishonest ruler? How ironical that he should re... ... about our fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the community...never mentioning that our fle... ...s would appear again and again. There, on the hill, gazing seaward, where fishing smacks moved, I rubbed the horny bark, envying the tree’s longevit... ...h my blur of happiness, I saw Anaktoria, Libus, Gorgo, Nano, old friends, fishermen, villagers. Old women went about hawking oranges. Old men drank ... ...ng out architectural commissions, arranging his treatises on perspective, anatomy, horses, flight, and the arts. His patron, King Francis, called hi... ...foliage: I would list geology, hydraulics, painting, sculpture, geometry, anatomy, medi- cine... Cloux When Michelangelo showed me his cartoo... ... Windows were open and heat-lightning was flickering beyond my studio. My anatomy drawings were spread on the corner table. Then I saw. Saw clearly.... ...Series of Last Supper drawings. Astronomy: distance of sun and earth. Anatomy: 60 drawings— Muscles of upper limbs, muscles of legs, ...

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...s a shrine, and lived in a single room by the kitchen. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, hist... ...ng on human shinbones for its legs, and a refrigerator stocked with bits of female anatomy (Ed denied the cannibalism charges levied against him). ... ...deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisheries: "They scattered before him parched corn, called ... ... The Salmon do not eat until they reach their destination and built a nest. The US Fish and Wildlife Service describe the few survivors as "often g... ... In 1874, Rev. Moses Harvey of Newfoundland displayed a dead giant squid caught by fishermen in his tub. The specimen was described in a scientific... ...squid grows fast and attains full size in 3-4 years. Giant squids eat deep sea fishes - as well as smaller squids. They use their very long fee... ...opping 15 meters (50 feet!). They are found in almost all vertebrates, including fish. Many of them have distinct heads and bodies. None of them... ...s precisely the route of a canal he envisioned. His scientific investigations - in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, ornithology, botany - are consid... ...cgi-local/cart.cgi?vaksam_EXCERPTS 9. "Diary of a Narcissist" (November 2005) The anatomy of one man's mental illness – its origins, its unfolding,...

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...touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries be... ... World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries before Columbus—Basque fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to ... ...s alongside towering typesetting machines melt twenty-eight-pound lead-and-anatomy cylinders, ―pigs‖ needed to form the type characters. An operator... ...sity of Chicago Press, 1996. Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. New York: Walker and Co., 1997. Laughlin, ...

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...e vestiges of food and clothing regulations, if only in the form of eating fish on Fridays and the use of head coverings in church. When it comes to i... ... something of a paradox, since reincarnation is held not to be of physical anatomy. The role of paradox Many of the basic Buddhist teachings seem para... ..., (2) they cultivated only a portion of it, using the rest for hunting and fishing, and (3) they moved seasonally to differ- ent parts of their lands ... ...to differ- ent parts of their lands depending on the abundance of game and fish and the need to cultivate fields. English settlers did not see, or cho... ...he Bible (Genesis 1:36) where God says that man is to have domin- ion over fish, birds, cattle, and the earth, and is to fill the earth and subdue it.... ... is no difference in essence between a large rock, a particular species of fish, bird, or animal, and a human being (or clan of human beings). They ar...

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...day and the heavy heat shimmered around me, the shop next to me sold dried fish. With my wife and two small sons, I had arrived in Lampang on the nigh... ...y bartering. Very common goods for sale in those days were salt and soured fish, fermented fish. Today you don't see traders with their wares on buffa... .... You just went to the field to fetch vegetables and ate them, or you went fishing to get yourself some fish. Today, if you have no money, you can't m... ...here were beehives. But today they are very rare. The same has happened to fish. There's no fish at all now in these waters. We used to have many kind... ... There's no fish at all now in these waters. We used to have many kinds of fish. Today, you find hardly any, because they have been killed by poisons ... ...he body, or lightly beats the patient with a stick on various parts of his anatomy. The stick is made of a thin bamboo or tree seedling, and it is ren...

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... body, surround it with lace of dazzling whiteness worked in meshes like a fish- slice, festoon the black velvet doublet of the old man with a heavy g... ...the form cor- rectly, and put everything in place according to the laws of anatomy. You color the features with flesh-tones, mixed be- forehand on you... ...ch seems to terminate the body? The same phenomenon which we notice around fishes in the water is also about objects which float in air. See how these...

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...ntal lucidity, and she found in biology, and par- ticularly in comparative anatomy, a very considerable inter- est, albeit the illumination it cast up... ...n who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. But his role was altered, and he was now playing the bridegroom ... ...treet. She was working very steadily at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonder- fully relieved to have her mind engaged upon one methodi- ... ...s of an impa- tient horse, the trick of a calculating boy, the senses of a fish, the fungus at the root of a garden flower, and the slime upon a sea-w... ...en- eralizations gather all the facts of natural history and com- parative anatomy together, but they seemed always stretch- ing out further and furth... ...wo systems of val- ues—the two series of explanations that her comparative anatomy on the one hand and her sense of beauty on the other, set going in ...

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...second wife, as his sister was his nearest relation, and as the doctor had fished out that his intentions were to make any child of hers his heir, whi... ...e been brought to depose as she did, had not Mrs. Wilkins, with great art, fished all out of her at her own house, and had she not indeed made promise... ...ones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 140 long and very learned lecture of anatomy, in which simple and double fractures were most accurately consider... ...ther, that is, as a man may say, designedly: but there is a fine kettle of fish made on’t up at our house.” “What can be the matter, Mr. Western?” sai... ...faith. Thus we may, perhaps, with little danger, relate the his tory of Fisher; who having long owed his bread to the gen The History of Tom Jones... ...f at an entertainment which he that evening gave his friends, and to which Fisher had been invited. During all this time, no tender, no grateful refle...

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...ndred feet from the house a former lake, now a mere pond well stocked with fish, makes known its vicinity as much by a thin mist rising above the tree... ... from behind, bore so perfect a resemblance to a cod that the name of that fish was given to them. The fashion of codfish tails lasted ten years; almo... ... a silly, weak, and clumsy appearance; but once at work he was active as a fish; he escaped like an eel; he understood, as the dogs do, the merest gla... ...” said Peyrade; “this one has rank.” “What difference is that to me? All’s fish that swims in the sea,” replied Corentin, signing to the gendarme who ... ... we can collect proofs in your favor you must apply for pardon. That’s the anatomy of the business, and my advice. If we triumph (for everything is po... ...to the public. As for the Emperor, 146 An Historical Mystery he has other fish to fry than to consider the case of these gentlemen, supposing even th...

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...fe 18 calmly maintained, an attitude apparently inconsistent with the human anatomy and the laws of gravity. It is enough that at last she triumphant... ...I am so harried and worried here just now, that I lead the life of a flying fish. I skulk about in the dark, I am shut out of my own house, and warne...

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...orn as to be ab 44 Bleak House – Dickens solute traps. We had a fine cod fish, a piece of roast beef, a dish of cutlets, and a pudding; an excellent... ...d into a vacant chair (there was no top or bottom in particular) after the fish was taken away and seemed passively to submit himself to Borriohoola ... ... in my stock. And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. And all’s fish that comes to my net. And I can’t abear to part with anything I once l... ...ull too prominent. There is something inde finably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watch ful way of looking out of the corners of her ... ...ith a young gentleman sitting on a bench outside the inn door who had some fishing tackle lying beside him. “That’s the housekeeper’s grandson, Mr. Ro... ... the mean while, he comes here pretty often for a day or two at a time to—fish. Ha ha ha ha!” “Are he and the pretty girl engaged, Mr. Boythorn?” ask...

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...hoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men. ... ...d foot-cause- ways, no railroad on the opposite bank, no hanging bridge or fish-market near at hand, no traffic on the nearest bridge of stone, nothin... ...rpowering peer, a bashful young member of the Lower House who was the last fish but one caught by the Barnacles, and who had been invited on this occa... ...ittle while, took it on his for a moment as if his were a yellow salver or fish-slice, and then returned it to Mr Dorrit. ‘I thought I would drive rou...

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...uched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries be... ... World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries before Columbus—Basque fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to ... ...s alongside towering typesetting machines melt twenty-eight-pound lead-and-anatomy cylinders, ―pigs‖ needed to form the type characters. An operat... ...sity of Chicago Press, 1996. Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. New York: Walker and Co., 1997. Laughlin, ...

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...d Soules, 258 This word (Rebellion) it had froze them vp, 259 As Fish are in a Pond. But now the Bishop 260 Turnes Insurrection to Reli... ... high: and the very same day did I fight 1565 with one Sampson Stock- fish, a Fruiterer, behinde Greyes- Inne. 1566 Oh the mad dayes that I h... ...or thinne Drinke doth so ouer- coole 2329 their blood, and making many Fish- Meales, that they 2330 fall into a kinde of Male Greene- sickness... ...d. 3200 Dol. Goodman death, goodman Bones. 3201 Host. Thou Anatomy, thou. 3202 Dol. Come you thinne Thing: 3203 Come you R...

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...e World? . . . And how are all things made for man? —Kepler (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE CHAP... ...my description. “Octopuses,” said he, “that’s what I calls ‘em. Talk about fishers of men—fighters of fish it is this time!” “It ain’t no murder killi... ...about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman’s basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints o... ...hed into mist at last towards the Naze. Close in- shore was a multitude of fishing smacks—English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches ... ...y. Most of its arms were re- tracted, but with three long tentacles it was fishing out a number of rods, plates, and bars which lined the covering and... ...n Mars they may have progressed upon them with some facility. The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection has since shown, was almost equal...

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...n a community of a few hundred people, began to be introduced to the world of knowledge over 65 years ago, the sciences became to me what water is to fish, air is to birds and earth is to humanity. The introduction to the mathematical, physical, chemical and biological sciences felt like reading a beautiful poem or listening to a romantic melody. In essence, it was truly...

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...ARCELLO MALPIGHI (1628-1694) Italian Physiologist and Microscopist 55 One of founders of the science of microscopy. Unveiled the nature of human anatomy and physiology. MONDINO De LUZZI (1275-1326) Italian Anatomist 55 One of the greatest human anatomists of the Renaissance. ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) Flemish-Italian Anatomist 55 Wrote his masterpiece on The ...

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...s distill’ d: Wherewith when water’d was his grandam, Hey, Aloud he cried, Fish it, sir, I pray y’; Because his beard is almost all beray’ d; Or, that... ...n th’ interim a crafty chuff approaches, From the depth issued, where they fish for roaches; Who said, Good sirs, some of them let us save, The eel is... ... served in at the table; of bread, of wine, of water, of salt, of fleshes, fishes, fruits, herbs, roots, and of their dressing. By means whereof he le... ...bling in some fair meadow, unnestling of sparrows, tak- ing of quails, and fishing for frogs and crabs. But although that day was passed without books... ...ut, said he, we did not drink it fresh. By the virtue, said they, not of a fish, a valiant man, a conqueror, who pretends and aspires to the monar- ch... ...d so wonderful that Democritus hath written a whole book of its figure and anatomy, as also of its virtue and propriety in magic. This I can affirm, t...

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... ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. GREGORY: ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes... ...e shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to fin... ...book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him, only lacks a cover: The fish lives in the sea, and ’tis much pride For fair without the fair within... ...RCUTIO: Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the num bers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to ... ...rder’d her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me, In what vile part of this anatomy Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion. ... ... shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff’d, and other skins Of ill shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green eart...

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...spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the se- creting organs of the fish. The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine m... ...ures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit, as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists, or the wings of an eagle in the egg presup... ...e they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, for the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? Broader and deeper we must write our ... ... may compensate its good. Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fish- ing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equip- ment exhaus... ... type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as a run- ning man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man. Eac... ...terely the same lesson. As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a publ... ... that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy. When Socrates, in Charmides, tells us that the soul is cured of it... ...psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiol- ogy become phrenology and palmistry. But taking timely...

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...lf. The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy , lectures on pathology , lectures on physi- ology, lectures on pha... ...gged her father to be spared the usual mar- riage pleasantries. However, a fishmonger, one of their cous- ins (who had even brought a pair of soles fo... ...ndial; she even inquired how she could get a basin with a jet fountain and fishes. Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up... ...r its mouth, where there are a few trout that the lads amuse themselves by fishing for on Sundays. We leave the highroad at La Boissiere and keep stra... ... evening, that I fairly cried with laughing; and he stood there like a dab fish and never said a word.” “Yes,” observed the chemist; “no imagination, ... ...icite went on, “you are just like La Guerine, Pere Guerin’ s daughter, the fisherman at Pollet, that I used to know at Dieppe before I came to you. Sh...

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... marble, and displaying in its clear depths a multitude of gold and silver fish, which moved about now slowly and now swiftly, now alone and now in sh... ...lden, trembling floor; and below me I could hear the waters gurgle and the fishes splash, while I knelt down to range my columns. All, as I now saw, w... ... small, but well-situated and pleasant, lodgings, on the north side of the Fish-market, a fine, long street, where the everlasting motion came to the ... ...-year, therefore, I attended Spielmann’s course on chemis- try, another on anatomy by Lobstein, and proposed to be right industrious, because, by my s... ... must run similar risks to obtain a nearer view of important works of art. Anatomy, also, was of double value to me, as it taught me to endure the mos... ...fear- ing he would throw himself into the Rhine. Could I have been sure of fishing him out again quickly, like Mentor his T elemachus, he might have m...

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...ems thus sacri- ficed were afterwards brought back to their hand by simple fishermen, who had recovered them in the intestines of fishes—a portentous ... ...he greater part of their number was absent during the winter months at the fisheries upon the Caspian. Some who were liable to surprise at the most ex... ...e animals, is supposed, throughout all maritime Europe, to be a privileged fish; even in austere Scot- land, every child can point out the impression ... ...on of St. Peter’s thumb, by which from age to age it is distinguished from fishes having otherwise an external resemblance. All domes- ticated cattle,... ...st came Dr. Andrew Bell. We knew him. Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner; and his main idea, out of ... ...nd mind. His person was small; and pos- sibly a more meagre, arid, parched anatomy of a man, has not appeared upon this earth. The upper part of his f...

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...If machines were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the anatomy of machines and the functions of their parts: they would also have ... ...good deal more: for instance, a cutthroat learns (and perhaps teaches) the anatomy of the carotid ar- tery and jugular vein; and there can be no quest... ...e public between the eminent doctor who tells us that we do not eat enough fish, and his equally eminent colleague who warns us that a fish diet must ...

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... the adult infant lisps to the waiter for everything at table, handles his fish with epicu- rean delicacy, is choice in his selection of pickles, very... ...aloon, and then she—swims after them. But swimming is not the proper word. Fishes, in making their way through the water, assist, or rather impede, th... ...d there offers nothing else of active enterprise to the trav- eler, unless fishing be considered an active enterprise. I am not capable of fishing, th... ...s, and bones, till the animal was a heap of atoms, and assured me that the anatomy of the horse throughout was one of the neces- sary studies of the p...

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...rson whose immaculate funereal suit hung loosely upon an aged and hurrying anatomy. He wore a big black cap on top of his haggard and remarkably clean... ...on—to follow and keep track of his surely 128 The Enormous Room shrinking anatomy) seize our staffs into our hands, and con- tinue the ascent begun w... ...anish well and French passably; had black hair, bright Jewish eyes, a dead-fish expression, and a both amiable and courteous dis- position. One Eyed D... ...cheeks (furrows which re- sembled slightly the gills of some extraordinary fish, some unbreathing fish) moved not an atom. The moustache drooped in so... ...ting your time. He did not come and he did not go. He drifted. His angular anatomy expended and collected itself with an effortless spontaneity which ... ...o stripped The Zulu and searched every wrinkle and crevice of his tranquil anatomy for money (so The Zulu vividly informed us)— finding not a sou. The... ...is arm-pits, mysteri- ously falling over the ownness of two feet, floating fish of his slimness half a bird …. Gentlemen, I am inexorably grateful for... ...ful it is, no other 184 The Enormous Room side, and yet—the sea. In which fish swim. Wonderful. He is utterly curious. He is utterly hungry. We have ...

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... me. I’m not allowed wine—only Apollinaris. No meat either—only a scrap of fish occasionally. I’m to have a short life, but not a merry one. (Sighing.... ...anatomical preparations, with a framed photograph of Rembrandt’s School of Anatomy hanging on the wall above it. In front, a little to the right, a te...

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...derer—Miss Honeychurch would remember the story. The men on the river were fishing. (Untrue; but then, so is most informa- tion.) Then Miss Lavish dar... ...oes—now, unhappily, ruined by resto- ration—is untroubled by the snares of anatomy and perspective. Could anything be more majestic, more pathetic, be... ...ame as the one we are going with Mr. Beebe, then I foresee a sad kettle of fish.” “How?” “Because Mr. Beebe has asked Eleanor Lavish to come, too.” “T... ...ople sat in the room. One—a boy of nineteen—was studying a small manual of anatomy, and peering occasionally at a bone which lay upon the piano. From ... ...ile George, the world-weary George, shouted to Freddy that he had hooked a fish. “And me, I’ve swallowed one,” answered he of the bracken. “I’ve swall...

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...on, Vizetelly, 1887; Dead Souls, London, Maxwell 1887; Dead Souls, London, Fisher Unwin, 1915; Dead Souls, London, Everyman’s Library (Intro. by John ... ...th coloured clay. On the walls hung sabres, hunting-whips, nets for birds, fishing-nets, guns, elaborately carved powder-horns, gilded bits for horses... ...persed among the fields and meadows and the fords of the Dnieper; each man fished, wrought at his trade, brewed his beer, and was once more a free Cos... ...ink he is not a man, but only a Jew.” “Then put me in the waggon with some fish over me.” “I cannot, my lord, by heaven, I cannot: all over Poland the... ... all over Poland the people are as hungry as dogs now. They will steal the fish, and feel my lord.” “Then take me in the fiend’s way, only take me.” “... ...t Michael Angelo was a braggart because he could boast only a knowledge of anatomy; that there was no grace about him, and that real bril- liancy and ...

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...homas Aquainas’ works; and tell me whether those men took pains.”—Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, P . I, s. 2. THIS WA S MR. CASAUBON’S LETTER. My Dea... ...ustice. As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator ram- pant. By the bye, before I go, my dear, ... ...ector was at home, and his visitor was shown into the study, where all the fishing tackle hung. But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work... ...t you 63 George Eliot will make no impression on Humphrey. As long as the fish rise to his bait, everybody is what he ought to be. Bless you, Casaubo... ...to be. Bless you, Casaubon has got a trout-stream, and does not care about fishing in it himself: could there be a better fellow?” “Well, there is som... ...s Xisuthrus and Fee-fo-fum and the rest; but then he doesn’t care about my fishing-tackle. As to the line he took on the Catholic Ques- tion, that was... ...ht seem inconvenient to do so. The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the ... ...ee hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era 415 George Eliot in anatomy.” “I can’t guess,” said Rosamond, shaking her head. “W e used to pl... ...ll tell you. His name was V esalius. And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards ...