Little Willie's senseless ramblings

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Self execution

I've been listening to Lithium24 on the satelite radio lately (alt/grunge) and was a little intrigued by a song I heard the other day. I think it was Tori Amos (the car radio doesn't show title/artist info) and she was singing a lot about finding a saviour in the streets, and in these dirty sheets, and how she was crucifying herself. I thought about that, and could not think of any way you could actually crucify yourself. Oh sure, there's plenty of other execution methods you can perform on yourself: You can hang yourself, shoot yourself, electrocute yourself, gas yourself. Given a guillotine and a length of string you could behead yourself; Japanese daggers are good for disemboweling yourself. You could burn yourself at the stake, and with the help of a ladder you could impale yourself. Now, being fed to hungry lions could be difficult, especially in this country -- and stoning yourself would probably require an accident at a gravel quarry. Crucifixion though -- sure you could nail the feet and one hand, but the other hand would be really hard. Then there's the whole lifting the cross up and dropping it in the hole process.

Nope, I can't really see someone crucifying themselves, that's something other people are always happy enough to do for you...

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