May 23, 2009
A curiosity
An Italian gentleman, Snr. Alessandro Volta, appears to have been fiddling with “animal electricity” in the form of frogs’ legs connected in series, and has come up with this. He calls it a “voltaic pile” or “electric battery”. It is made of zinc and copper and it apparently provides a steady “electric current”. We wonder how useful it can possibly be, really.
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For what it’s worth, here are some illustrations of those legs.
So leggy!
Unambiguously amphibiously so.
Frogs’ legs “prepared in the usual way”. This is marvellous.
What a fucking name, though. Volta. Voltaic. That man will go far, once he realises the true value of those frogs’ legs.
And as long as he’s not the pinhead in panel 4, or the owner of one of the severed hands.
I love their lab coats.
Actually, the whole mood reminds me of Edward Gorey. Eh, Sheila?
I mean, panel two. COME ON.
Panel 2 says “Gone to lunch” to me.
These people were just fucking geniuses. The whole thing. It’s so marvellous. And to think we’re left with A fucking AA Duracell bunnies. I’m appalled by the mediocrity of our current circumstances.
I’m going to have to have one of these panels on a tshirt together with the epithet
Frog “prepared in the usual way”. But not italicised. At all.
Very Gorey, Lucy.
Mmm. Just got thinking. Salivating. Frogs’ legs fried with morals. Eh, morels.
I’ve just seen the severed hands! The panels are clickable! I strongly recommend this feature.
Side order of deep-fried poets’ legs.
Sheila, you must be very very careful.
And a plate of lousy comic timing.
Yes, they’re clickable. Great detail.
Here is the front page of the exhibition. There are other amusing images, including more legs.