Tag: Eden
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The physician’s guide to The Garden of Earthly Delights
Nora Fisher-CampbellPortland, Oregon, United States I have returned repeatedly to The Garden of Earthly Delights as a strange and fascinating representation of the human experience. The triptych, painted in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century by Hieronymus Bosch, depicts a fever-dream vision of Eden, Earth, and the Last Judgement.1 On the left panel, God…
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Pathology
Eden AlmasudeMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States Sipping Scotch and watching fava beansSpurt new life from the earthI ruminate:a dead man’s ribcage, mutilatedThe skin of his scalp,Limp without a skull beneathfor: science and medicine?Or curiosity?I smell the morgueIn sweat from my run and wonderhow he can rest in peacewhen his lungs are sliced,his brain in a bucket,tissue ready…
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Paradise Lost – John Milton
Before his final expulsion from paradise Adam was taken to the highest mountain in the garden, where the archangel Michael showed him what misery the future will bring to man: Immediately a placeBefore his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark;A lazar-house it seemed; wherein were laidNumbers of all diseased; all maladiesOf ghastly spasm, or racking…