The lampshade that drives its owners mad

[Atheist-Lite]

The lampshade that drives its owners mad

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 17357.html

Viewed from a distance, it is an unremarkable object. Place it on a corner table in any house, and it would probably pass unnoticed, for a while. Picking it up and holding it is another matter. The translucent quality of the material stretched over its eight panels should be attractive but isn't. The lampshade has a curious, waxy texture. You might convince yourself that the covering was some commonplace form of tanned parchment, were it not for its yellow-green opalescence and the fact that embedded in one or two areas of the material are thin, white filaments, slightly thicker than cotton, that have the appearance of very finely minced squid. It seems somehow surprising that it has no smell.


When you run your finger around the edges of a small square that a DNA analyst cut out of one of the panels, you notice the surprising thinness of the taut covering. Leave anybody to examine this object for long enough and I think they would experience two reactions: a slow but mounting repulsion of the kind that occurs instantaneously when you see a rat, and an impulse to ask: "What is this thing made of?"

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[leo-rcc]

I thought they were just a myth. I've seen many horrible things in Auschwitz and Dachau, but never one of those illusive lampshades.

[kiki5711]

Ed Gain made in out of his mother's skin.

[Atheist-Lite]

Ed Gain made in out of his mother's skin.

That's my thinking. It is much more likely to be a homegrown product than to have arrived on import.