FW: Whatever I feel like writing

One time I read a story, a fictional story, about a kid who replaced the hemoglobin in his blood with chlorophyll. Then he could regrow limbs and didn't need to eat because he got his energy from the sun. And of course his skin turned green. I made a sculpture to represent the book, and I had a big block of clay with a hand coming out one side, a plant coming out another side, and a metamorphic plant-hand in two different stages on the other two sides. I thought it was a fantastic way to represent the idea of the book. And I thought it would be a really interesting thing to think about on the bus ride to and from school. It doesn't make any sense realistically, but I started thinking about other medical possibilities. I wondered about whether or not you could meld two people into one. Suppose you scraped off all the skin off of one side of your body. It would heal itself. Suppose that you and a friend both did that, and then for the entire healing process, you held your open wounds against each other's. Would your bodies grow together? Would you have one big skin organ covering both of you? Would the DNA in the nucleus of your cells have to change to be compatible with both bodies? What would happen if you took the new DNA and cloned it? What would it look like? Hmmm... There's really no ethical way to find out any of those things. But sometimes I do think it would be fun to be a mad scientist with no morals; you could inject someone full of chlorophyll just to see what happens. What a career!