Inside the Skull House: A Neuropoesis, Part Three - Basal Ganglia

Basal Ganglia is an excerpt from the hypertext work Inside the Skull House.

About Inside the Skull House, Weishaus writes, "About four years ago, having finished work on Reality Dreams, an experimental autobiography, I began to look for another project. One day, I remembered a poem by Herman Melville that ends with 'they will but bury my spine.' Around that time, too, I came across Australian Aboriginal 'x-ray paintings,' and photographs of Siberian shamans in skeleton suits. I began researching skeletons, bones, and ossuaries. As this work progressed, I found that many anthropological materials centered on skulls, so that my interest rose to this level. But the scope I was looking for did not open until I realized that what I needed was the living skull; e.g., what resides inside, and the mystery of the consciousness it projects." -- Joel Weishaus