"For two hours after the accident I thought every moment that the next would be my last... the two guides were unnerved to such an extent that I suspected every minute one or the other would have slipped, and then it would have been all over". At 9.30pm, Whymper chose "a wretched slab, barely large enough to hold the three", on which to spend the night.
If constrained by time to a few must-see modernist Chicago sites, I would probably choose a very early example, the Monadnock Building, a forbidding red-stone slab without ornamental frills that dates from the early 1890's.
Chicken wings (choose a plate of 6, 10 or 20) also make great bar food, as does a thick slab of Gorgonzola terrine, served with pickled beets.
"So we chose a nice flat slab of rock, even though there's other places that have a lot more secondary alterations, like veins and concretions".
The problem is to choose appropriate slabs for a sequence of rolling items, from their respective candidate slab sets (families) with a view to reducing the resulting shuffling workload.
We chose a coronal oblique scan plane parallel to the length of the sacrum and two slabs: one transversal slab was positioned cranially to the region of interest, to diminish flow artefacts; and one was positioned frontally through the bowel and anterior abdominal wall, to diminish motion artefacts of breathing and bowel movements.
Full ignorance ahead, I shopped for an 18-inch-wide, 7-foot-long slab of reclaimed lumber and, fleeing a $1,000 price tag, instead chose a piece of new sapele wood for $240.
So I chose a more reverent course: I called a team of sawyers who milled the tree into thick slabs of lumber.
Feel free to be picky here and choose your slabs o' protein carefully.
Choose your target and place a slab facing it.
'What a piece of writing that is!' he says about his chosen slab of James.
