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To: nihil who wrote (46790)	7/24/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

>>>>>Some of the most beautiful human pictures are in surgical and anatomical texts. You should study these. They show people as they really are. Not all frills and cosmetic finishes -- but working nerves and muscles and bones. You should try to learn what people really are, how they work, how they live and die.<<<<< Having once been a scrub tech (the one who hands the surgeon the scalpel when s/he says "scalpel!" ~ and now spending much of my working life working with medical journals and textbooks, I don't consider the aesthetic qualities of the people at all ~ I don't think of them as being beautiful, nor ugly, much less hideous, nor frightening. They are just people. I grew up watching my father work on teeth, like other people watch their fathers plant corn, or run a cash register, or work on cars. My earliest job, when I was 12, was developing x-ray film and cleaning and sterilizing dental tools. Teeth, bones, blood, flesh, snot, spit, whatever, it's all just matter. Although I never did get used to the smell. But a dead person doesn't look as good as a live person ~ they are vacant, no one's home.