"At the Jardin des Plantes, I stood for a long time meeting the immemorial gaze of an alligator's eyes. What enchants me in these reptiles is their impenetrable hebetude, which allies them to stones: as if they came before life, preceded without heralding it, as if they even fled from it..." --Emil Cioran

All bodies are real. For those like me whom morbidity has crossed over to anatomy and pathology.