Fingers sawn off, cheeks sliced wide open, and eyeballs pierced with scalpels - these are just some of the medical operations featured in a new book about 19th century surgery.
Air pockets open between eyeballs and their lids; neck tendons tighten; gluteal muscles clamp shut; knuckles whiten.
When I see, "10 Things You Had No Idea Were In The Air You Are Breathing Right Now," or, "Did You Know That Opening Your Eyeballs Can Be Fatal?" I am going to shut my computer and go to sleep.
My mouth fell open and my eyeballs rolled up to the right, gazing blindly at the abandoned bird's nest on top of the porch light: What had I done with the keys?
He was saved, she wrote, by holding his eyelids open and his eyeballs exposed until they burned and began to tear up.
A deft bass monster grabs your throat with one hand and slices your eyeballs open with shards of serrated guitar.
Opening for Xray Eyeballs was SISU, which features Sandy and Jules from Dum Dum Girls.
Enucleated eyeballs opened at the anterior chamber or posterior vitreous were immersed in a fixative solution containing 2% glutaraldehyde and 2.5% formaldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer (pH 7.2) at room temperature for 5 days.
The overall look was influenced by television images, particularly commercials: Many shots have characters leaning into the lens with their eyeballs wide open, and the interior scenes are heavily lit, because Weir wanted to remind viewers that "in this world, everything was for sale".
