← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Hereward
Thread ID: 4797 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-02-05
2003-02-05 01:37 | User Profile
Well, in another century, on another continent, and the donors presumably died of cholera and whisky and gunfights rather than Zyklon B. I wonder if the entrepreneur has any descendants from whom reparations can be extorted? I sure feel something's owed me, for the pain and anguish of the severe gross-out this story caused me.
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An article in the 1853 Chambers' Edinburg Journal, reprinting an article from the Panama Herald, mentions a curious and unusual California Industrial practise for making soap:
"Owing to the spongy, springy nature of the soil in the burying-ground of San Francisco, many of the corpses there interred, instead of decaying, have been converted into a substance well known to chemists by the name of adipocere - a substance analogous to, and intermediate between, stearine and spermaceti. In passing the ground this morning to my place of employment, I saw a person busily engaged in collecting the adipocere from exposed bodies. Struck by the singularity of his employment, I interrogated him as to its object, when he cooly replied, that he was gathering it to make soap!"