"The body is a heavy stone falling into still water, and the soul is a ripple."
Why does Cupid's arrow of love shoot at the human heart, not at the lungs, liver, spleen, lips and brain?
The heart manages two of the most important events in life: love and death.
It transports blood to other organs, stops beating when it encounters insurmountable obstacles, and beats violently when it sees its sweetheart.
Before anatomy was applied, people arbitrarily regarded the heart as the engine of love, and thought that all the crazy actions people did in love were related to it, so Cupid's arrow of love was aimed at the human heart.
Civilization is not elsewhere, it is hidden in the human body. A book that starts from the human body, takes you to feel or change your imagination of civilization, and after reading it, you will crack your health code, and from then on, you will cherish every inch of your bones, blood and skin from the hair to the soles of your feet.
Title: The Metaphor of the Body
Author: Zhao Yan
Publisher: Huacheng Publishing House
Zhao Yan is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Literature at the Complutense University in Spain, and is the author of "We Are All Second-Hand Animals".
Every part of the human body is unique and precious, and I want to share it, but I don't know whether to start from the beginning or from the feet.
There are too many important human organs in the head: eyes, nose, mouth and ears, etc., and it is impossible to pull the brake even if you say thousands of words.
Let's start with our feet. For the feet, everything on the human body is baggage.
But not all animals use their feet to carry their body luggage, such as abs for snakes, fins for fish, wings for birds and insects, and different animals choose different mobility devices.
Coral and bacteria, for example, have little interest in autonomous movement, and their life is too short for them to see the scenery.
Knowing about the animal world, someone wrote a return letter to Shangdi, hoping that humans would have a dog nose, cat ears, eagle-like eyes, and a hummingbird-like body with almost no weight in order to fly...... Haha, isn't this strange request turning humans into a strange species all at once?
Why do people have such a rich imagination? It comes from the brain.
In the human body, the shape of the brain is worthy of its function: it twists and turns like a labyrinth, with no ending point.
It is the brain that makes us who we are, not others. Any tiny fold and bulge in the brain can make us different or completely opposite.
Different parts of the brain have different functions, for example, the left side of the brain is more rational thinking, the right side of the brain is more intuitive and abstract, the left side of the brain is responsible for optimism, and the right side of the brain is a container for depression, disappointment, and trouble.
Memory is one of the most important functions of the brain. "Remembering" is the magic weapon that makes us live in this world, and it gives things coherence.
Calvino said that man is forever suffering from a pair of eyes in the back of his head, and his attitude towards knowledge can only be questionable, because he can never be sure what is behind him...
There is also an interesting description of the stomach: the stomach is not so much an organ as a series of relationships.
In the food chain, no stomach is the real winner, and the stomach of a lion is equally subservient to the stomach of a bacterium.
Space is limited, more exciting in "The Metaphor of the Body"
For example, there are 32 internal organs including hands, feet, intestines, spleen, stomach, etc., as well as detailed matters of skin and hair.
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