At the latter, the job was removing cubes of paraffin containing samples of tissue from cardboard boxes that were deteriorating and placing the samples in plastic bags. Probably a medical school student is prepared to witness bodies taken apart; as a college freshman, it was a challenge. All organs were neatly put in pans where they presented a range of colors: gray and off-white, but mostly various shades of red. The professor in my course used an inverted waste-basket as his lectern as he discoursed on a Platonic dialogue. What they had in common was being cut off from reality other than the wall of the cave or ell.

Source: Huffington Post November 13, 2017 04:30 UTC