This is awesome :) I especially enjoy Rousseau getting all excited that his monument is full of naked chicks.
I think Bentham has it worse, though. Locked in a closet and brought out for major university board meetings. Yes, he asked for it, but can you imagine, an eternity of board meetings? Of course, it was Bentham.
This story is umpteen degrees of cool! I also particularly liked Rousseau's enthusiasm for his nekkid girls. The ending - which is perfect - has a sort of John Donne feel to it. Politics may make strange bedfellows, but this has me thinking death makes even stranger companions for the eternal rest.
I love the old dispersal of body parts bit - am totally enthusiastic about, for example, the Cordeliers Club hanging Marat's heart in a container from the roof of the club. Gruesomely fantastic! And thank goodness they kept Louis XVII's heart - it enabled recent DNA testing to put the survival myths to rest once and for all. It's always inappropriately cracked me up that after they burned Shelley's remains, they thought the only organ that was intact was his heart, so they souveinered that. As someone pointed out, the liver is much tougher, so it was more probable that is what was raked from the ashes. Very appropriate for the author of "Prometheus"!
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I think Bentham has it worse, though. Locked in a closet and brought out for major university board meetings. Yes, he asked for it, but can you imagine, an eternity of board meetings? Of course, it was Bentham.
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I love the old dispersal of body parts bit - am totally enthusiastic about, for example, the Cordeliers Club hanging Marat's heart in a container from the roof of the club. Gruesomely fantastic! And thank goodness they kept Louis XVII's heart - it enabled recent DNA testing to put the survival myths to rest once and for all. It's always inappropriately cracked me up that after they burned Shelley's remains, they thought the only organ that was intact was his heart, so they souveinered that. As someone pointed out, the liver is much tougher, so it was more probable that is what was raked from the ashes. Very appropriate for the author of "Prometheus"!
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