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Eight white Roman pillars anchor the building, while wood-paneling of a mahogany tone outlines the horseshoe shape of the interior...
...Didn't Die: Once home to one of the world's largest sawmills, the town moved from wood chips to microchips, attracting supercomputer maker Cray Research...
...observe the clinic in action. Avery situated the three dimensional structure of the clinic in an environment of two dimensional traditional art pieces. The outside of the white walls are covered with a wallpaper based on a 1749 century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, entitled Prison VII. A wood-block pattern of the life-cycle of HIV is incorporated into the Piranesi etching and illuminates the relevence of the Piranesi's shadowy and contorted confinement imagery to the disease...
...point of ominous abstraction. A traditional sterile hospital bed and two metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
...does report his grandmother's opinion that Old Whore is getting off lightly: "They should burn the bitch on Heaven Lamp like they did in the old days." And he describes what happened to a woman condemned to Heaven Lamp: "She was hung naked upside down above a wood fire whose flames could barely touch her scalp, and two men flogged away at her with whips made of bulls' penises." The release of death usually came "a day and a night" later...