Tuesday, May 20, 2003 :::
Ent or Endocrine?
Inspired by Michael's recent riff on the xiphoid process, here is a quiz. Your task is to guess if the following terms are parts of the human body, taken from the On-Line Medical Dictionary,
Or...
Are they place names from the J.R.R. Tolkien Atlas?
Answers below.
1) Canal of Nuck
2) Circle of Willis
3) Mouths of Anduin
4) Cohnheim's Field
5) Pass of Aglon
6) Canal of Guyon
7) Flowers of Benzoin
8) Rainbow Cleft
9) Firth of Drengist
10) Gap of Rohan
Answers:
Human Body: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7
Middle-Earth: 3, 5, 8, 9, 10
Quote of the Day:
The juke box was blasting away with something black and bouncy and I half watched the barmaid as she danced her way from the juke box to her place behind the bar. And I watched her face as she laughingly responded to something someone said to her, still keeping time to the music. When she smiled one saw the little girl, one sensed the doomed, still-struggling woman beneath the battered face of the semi-whore.
--- James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues, 1965.
::: posted by tom at 11:31 PM
