David Blaine: Drowned Alive? Part IV
Posted By Paul Kotik on 5 May 2006
"Well then", he said, gazing at the sphere and stroking his upper lip. "It seems to me a metaphor for the collective holding of all humanity’s breath."
What?
In New York City it doesn’t matter what you hear, it only matters what you overhear. New York, where a complete stranger, a Central Casting Upper West Side Intellectual complete with tweed sport jacket has this to say to me about that. That being David Blaine, The Person in the Waterball, as he’s now called in certain Manhattan salons. Person, yes ? I’m beginning to see myself joining those demanding a look at the catheter. I’d like to break the scoop to the Upper West Side: David Blaine, the Person in the Waterball, is a man. But then I’d never, ever have lunch in this town again.
It’s just now dark in Manhattan. The lights are on, and the sphere is a giant blue cat's eye.
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Dr. Ruden, Physician to the Stars, is concerned about David’s skin, among many other things. The hands, of course, but now the rest of him, too. The palms of the hands, he explains, are hyperkeratotic tissue: the cell turnover is very fast. Born, live, die fast. There are a lot of dead cells on the palms, and dead cells don’t give a fig about homeostasis. They get jerked around by whatever the environment throws at them, and when it’s immersion in water the prune effect is the result.
Copyright 2006 Paul Kotik/DeeperBlue.net
Copyright 2006 Paul Kotik/DeeperBlue.net
Same for the soles of the feet, by the way. But David’s been complaining of itching all over his body, and Dr. Ruden has noted some bumps here and there, as if there were bubbles just under the skin.
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