Overheard at The Universe Within

If you happen to catch the exhibition "The Universe Within," which features plastinated corpses in various states of dissection without the overbearing narrative of artistic interpretation (although eerily similar in some cases), then you may want to put some suitable tunes on your iPod and turn the volume to high. This is to block out the classical music which gives the whole experience a kind of cheesy, we-are-learning-something feeling.

Then again, you may miss some of the excellent utterances of the other visitors, some of whom seemed downright giddy at the prospect of looking at dead, filleted Chinese guys. Here are a few my husband and I caught when we went on Friday:

"This guy looks just like the other one."
"Spongy."
"That's tight. They totally snapped all his tendons."
"Those are huge. They don't look like they could even fit in a body."
"My friend lost all three of his. Ear infection ... and that's how he died."