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Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them
Discusses what it means to ingest things humans weren't meant to eat, and how the line between human bodies and foreign bodies can sometimes blur.
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My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay/Memoir on Love and Theft)
Cappello shares how she met Marty Pops, the first man she fell in love with. In those days, the early 1980s, when the life of ideas and desire and flirtation were all bound together, never neatly severed, when ingenues sleeping with their English professors was de rigueer, when so many in the male professoriate were on the prow, she remembers being cornered by Pops among a crush of people in a crowded room. To this day, she conveys she still fails to recognize what drew her to him.
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Getting the News: A Signer among Signs
Cappello details the treatment of her breast cancer. She argues that the steps of a core biopsy go like this: first, a needle filled with local anesthetic is inserted into the affected breast. Then a small incision is made through which the doctor guides a tube, into which she inserts an instrument she'll use to take samples of the tumor, the contours of which she simultaneously watches on an ultrasound screen. She needs to withdraw five samples minimum, and the instrument makes a loud stapling sound with each extraction. Sometimes the samples break up and she has to take more. Moreover, Cappello asserts that in her first meeting with her new surgeon, she was given the pathologist's report as the single most important interpretation in a cancer dossier, an identifying grid that she must carry now inside her wallet alongside her driver's license and her library card.
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For 'Anyone Interested in Learning What Makes Us Human'
Cappello talks about anatomist Gunther von Hagens, creator of BodyWorlds, who is responsible for a newly minted preservation technique called plastination--where the once-living human is preserved by a method that replaces bodily fluids and soluble fats with reactive resins and elastomers. Von Hagens' BodyWorlds exhibit--also known as the traveling corpse show or the corpse art show--preserves, poses, and sculpts human body without their skin, exposing areas that a person doesn't usually see. Here, Cappello comments that BodyWorlds treats bodies as mere matter, pliable dough, and lifeless stuff--it has no interest in what makes a person human.
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LOSING CONSCIOUSNESS TO A LOST ART
Even if the music that accompanies a silent film plays subtler parts in its unfolding, for example, when the music is scored to work in concert with the images to create an atmosphere or affect, sound does not appear to share a space with, to emerge from, or to move the images on the screen. First there is the notice you take of other bobbing heads in the silent film theater, as though nervous systems were collectively provoked, tickled, and finally disturbed when fellow viewers jerk awake in their seats, each a separate Frankenstein responding to a mild application of electricity to a node.
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Dickinson's Facing or Turning Away
Cappello critiques Emily Dickinson's complex poetics of space. She says that Dickinson doesn't cower in the dark without a clue, without a candle in her hallway habit or in her poetry. She commands space and invites one to be discomfited along with her. When the visit is over, she tells one so by sending a servant into one's space with a flower, a glass of sherry, or a verse, presumably on a tray.
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Of Thumbs
Isaac Newton thought the thumb alone proved the existence of God. Pliny attests that the right thumb of a virgin can cause a fallen epileptic to recover.
The classicist Anthony Corbeill relates “the most awful authority of thepollex,” for this is how the ancient Romans called the thumb, with their word for strength, thus distinguishing the thumb from the rest of the hand for its power: “In Roman practice the thumb lived up to its etymological reputation. It could both bestow and withhold favor, grant and deprive life.” In antiquity, “the gesture ofinfesto pollice, in particular, which seems
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After Montaigne
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best sellerHow to Live: A Life of Montaigneby Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored.After Montaigne-a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute-aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovative-even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists,After Montaigneoffers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new directions.
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Moscow 9/11
Cappello reflects on her emotions as she lived through the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks while visiting Moscow. She discusses the sympathy of the native Russians, as well as her own response and feelings about being so far away from home.
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