And
now, as I say, I'd take a small oscillating saw and carefully remove
your complete calvarium--the whole vault of the skull. This would
expose the top half of the brain, or rather the outer covering in
which it is wrapped. You may or may not know that there are three
separate coverings around the brain itself the outer one called the
dura mater or dura, the middle one called the arachnoid, and the
inner one called the pia mater or pia. Most laymen seem to have the
idea that the brain is a naked thing floating around in fluid in your
head. But it isn't. It's wrapped up neatly in these three strong
coverings, and the cerebrospinal fluid actually flows within the
little gap between the two coverings, known as the subarachnoid
space. As I told you before, this fluid is manufactured by the brain
and it drains off into the venous system by osmosis
The
coverings of the brain are very well explained. The tale is about a
dyng man who is offered to keep his brain alive in a basin, with an
eye as the only way to interact with the enviroment. The man accepted
the offer only because he would be able to read.
At
the end of the short story, the wife wants to take her husband´s
brain home because she realizes that she likes him better now and
it/he gives her no trouble.
Last
month, in Yale´s University a group of scientists has brought brains
of pigs back to life. This fact is linked with another of Dahl’s
tales – ‘Pigs’, a wonderful allegation in favour of veganism,
just like the film The Executioner, by Berlanga, is the best
allegation against death penalty
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