Body Parts, Diogenes
a poem by Raj Arumugam
And they asked Diogenes
how he'd like to be buried
and he said: ‘Just scatter my parts
well outside the City’
'But Diogenes
then the wild creatures
will get to the parts -
you don't mind being eaten
up by the creatures? ‘
’Oh, I hadn't considered that -
just provide me with a staff then
with which I might chase away the creatures'
'Oh, but Diogenes -
how will you do that when you are dead? ‘
’Oh, I hadn't considered that…
Well then, but why should I worry
what eats me after I'm dead? '
Kvadraturen
In Kvadraturen you find the square Christiania torv, known for its fountain with a sculpture of a hand pointing to the ground. After the big town fire in 1624, the Danish-Norwegian King Christian IV decided to rebuild the town in this area. He supposedly pointed to this spot and said: "The new town will lie here
The area is today known as Kvadraturen (“the quadrature”) because of the rectangular street pattern of Christian IV's renaissance town,
♫♫ THE ADDAMS FAMILY HAND ♫♫ [youtube.com]
How interesting this hand and its story. I like all the body part sculptures in Norway too. It really makes one contemplate. Diogenes simple realization of not caring about such things after death made me laugh.