mechAnIsm of consciousness

E Dorian · 21 Mar 2001, 13:43 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "E Dorian" <edorian at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) mechAnIsm of consciousness
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:43:35
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>From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:01:19 -0800

> > murderer and begins to have murderous impulses.  Or the magic hand that
> > will graft itself to the stump of a person's forarm, granting her great
> > power but slowly remaking her in the image of the hand's original owner.
>
>Is that "real" fantasy/horror? The only place I've run across that
>is in D&D, the "hand of Vecna." But I haven't read all the fantasy/
>horror classics by any means...

There was a movie released 10 years ago called Body Parts.  It was a stupid=20
horror movie, the plot of which was the following.  A "mad-scientist" type=20
doctor had a project where he would take body parts from convicted felons=20
(death row folks, maybe?  I don't recall the details), and=20
graft/insert/affix/install them on/in/upon law-abiding citizens.

You can guess what happened.  For example one man wakes up to find his new=20
arm attempting to strangle his wife...

The movie is listed on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302270871/o/qid=3D985198009/sr=3D2-=
1/103-8761236-2403868
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