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[Ya Sam]

Also check out Fernando del Paso's 'Palinuro of Mexico'. This novel is just 
one vast collection of lists. For instance this macabre vivisectionist 
catalogue (Pynchonian in a way):

"Avenozar removed the bronchial tubes from goats. Galen himself left animals 
speechless by cutting the recurrent nerve. Pliny dissected chameleons. Rufus 
of Ephesus carved up monkeys in order to study their anatomy, Behring burned 
rabbits with trichloride of iodine. And, while Pavlov drove dogs neurotic by 
playing tricks with their most sacred reflexes and confusing them with 
lights and bells, Bard and Mountcastle deprived cats of their rhinocephalic 
structures, causing them to turn savage, and exposed the trembling brain of 
a savage dog. Block opened up rabbits, deliberately damaged their hearts, 
operated on them and then sewed them up again and returned them to life. 
Kluver and Bucy removed monkeys' hypothalami to prove that they lost all 
sense of fear and anger, became libidinous and engaged in oral sex. Papez 
also undertook experiments on monkeys into accepting rag figures as their 
mothers and Kitasato inoculated the tails of rats with tetanus bacili."

(p. 16)

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