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people are apparently obsessed with these hugging skeletons. all three of the "most emailed photos" on my yahoo page are various shots of the recently unearthed bones.
meh. they probably strangled each other, and were buried together by their families as an eternal punishment. or because nobody could pry their dead fingers off each others' throats. kinda like in that "war of the roses" movie with kathleen turner and michael douglas. or maybe they're romeo and juliet. either way, they're dead.
i'm such a romantic. LOL.
but seriously, i find something deeply moving about the image of two dried up skeletons nestled together. not because it hints at the existence of "eternal love," thereby restoring my faith in a heteronormative romantic paradigm (do we even know that one is male and the other female?), but perhaps because it is a material trace of communal sentiment, a hint that at least one person (or two, if they died at the same instant) may have felt comforted by the presence of another at the moment of death.
gotta go now...i have an 8:20 appointment...
meh. they probably strangled each other, and were buried together by their families as an eternal punishment. or because nobody could pry their dead fingers off each others' throats. kinda like in that "war of the roses" movie with kathleen turner and michael douglas. or maybe they're romeo and juliet. either way, they're dead.
i'm such a romantic. LOL.
but seriously, i find something deeply moving about the image of two dried up skeletons nestled together. not because it hints at the existence of "eternal love," thereby restoring my faith in a heteronormative romantic paradigm (do we even know that one is male and the other female?), but perhaps because it is a material trace of communal sentiment, a hint that at least one person (or two, if they died at the same instant) may have felt comforted by the presence of another at the moment of death.
gotta go now...i have an 8:20 appointment...
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