tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174902168427916594.post6191011291479675471..comments2009-10-02T18:23:36.610-05:00RBMoreno.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03692175257149243815noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174902168427916594.post-76217724049654133122009-10-02T18:23:36.610-05:002009-10-02T18:23:36.610-05:00Unforgettable: "The colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table. They were like dried peach halves. There is no other way to say this. He took one of them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into a water glass. It came alive there."R.B. Morenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03692175257149243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174902168427916594.post-20340647040865043642009-10-02T18:01:43.598-05:002009-10-02T18:01:43.598-05:00I think I would get the heebie-jeebies with anything that was once a growing, living part of the human body and is no longer. For example, remember the ears in Carolyn Forche's poem "The Colonel"?Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01119852606772375561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174902168427916594.post-7943259795104739262009-10-02T17:07:20.651-05:002009-10-02T17:07:20.651-05:00The question of being bothered is a good one, and probably fodder for another story. As one unperturbed source in my story asks, "why do people get the heebie-jeebies with human hair? I don't know."R.B. Morenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03692175257149243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174902168427916594.post-64241121971269092802009-10-02T16:50:00.747-05:002009-10-02T16:50:00.747-05:00I still can't get over this . . . nor can I understand how some people aren't bothered by the presence of L-Cysteine in their food. The other day I was at Safeway, about to pick up a pre-made pie crust, and I remembered the possibility that it contained human hair. This fortunate recollection saved me about $5.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01119852606772375561noreply@blogger.com