Interactive Storytelling and Me.
When I thought about how interactive storytelling could be linked to the human body, what I wanted to study. I stood puzzled for about 5 minutes. Thought to my self, there is nothing that storytelling could go with the physiology of the body. Then I thought to myself. Well how do we tell what we are made of. We tell it through parts. Parts of our body. A little more brainstorming, I was seeing, that doctors for years have solved the many mysteries of how our body works, by explaining stories of our bodies. They use our bones, muscles, organs, all as parts, just as they are parts of our body. So I see how this works. How our bodies can become stories. You just have to pick the right part.
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Why did they do that? what where they looking for? What did they find? You can bet that it became part of a long storyline that was told across centuries.
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Michell quotes a book called Bore Hole written by Joey Mellen. At the time the passage below was written, Joey and his partner, Amanda Feilding, had made two previous attempts at trepanning Mellen. The second attempt ended up placing Mellen in the hospital, where he was reprimanded severely and sent for psychiatric evaluation. After he returned home, Mellen decided to try again. He describes his third attempt at self-trepanation:
After some time there was an ominous sounding schlurp and the sound of bubbling. I drew the trepan out and the gurgling continued. It sounded like air bubbles running under the skull as they were pressed out. I looked at the trepan and there was a bit of bone in it. At last!
Amanda Feilding also performed a self-trepanation with a drill, while her partner Joey Mellen filmed the operation, in the film titled Heartbeat in the Brain. The film has since been lost. Portions of the film can be seen, however, in the documentary A Hole in the Head.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanation