Tuesday, February 20, 2007

comforting thought from margaret atwood

When you miscarry, just be glad that your body is only aborting the invading cell cluster. It could be worse, just aborting bits for the sake of aborting.

"M'eh. Diaphragm? NOT the kind I care about. Abort! KidneyS? Plural? Who needs two of those? Let's lighten our load here...ABORT."

That would be senseless.

[Form and function: My body did away with its expendable organs some time ago, these being the gall bladder and appendix. It knew the tonsils are actually useful. Still, can't say the others 'ave been missed. Bit lighter in the step is all. Not so bad, really.]

2 comments:

Aron Ahlstrom said...

I aborted a few in hopes that I could, through a similar focus of will, regenerate my long lost prehensile tail. I really want that job as a monkey butler.

DMn said...

Aron? THAT'S where you are? Thank heavens. When you weren't growing out of my back, I totally freaked...thought I was imagining things or that there'd been a reverse-hybrid.

Shwew.