CHAPTER 5: THE MANIFESTO OF ALAN POTTER, PART 2

When dismembering a body, you tend to hear a lot of familiar sounds but in a strange context. A lot of them are sounds that you don’t really think about when you hear them in day to day life, but the associations can’t be ignored when you’re cutting up a body, especially for the first time. Human cartilage sounds a lot like the pieces of a chicken when you separate it from the rest of the bird at the dinner table. Cutting flesh and muscl. . .