TE19 Iberian Adventure

My Plague Diary

Eduardo Kac made a live rabbit glow in the dark.

He introduced the following substance: the fluorescent protein, Aequorea victoria.

Innocuous fluorescent light for the poor luminous creature.

The pet of Eduardo Kac’s children. To humans and to human machines, staying still is an effort.

The body gets flabby, the car engine filled with mice.

There is talk of some incredible gestures, and some terrible ones.

I’m going to study fireflies some more.

A man spits on a woman to infect her; a grandmother finally hugs her granddaughter and cries.

Human beings need to glow in the dark.

But without technology it’s not easy, it’s not easy, it’s not easy.

20 May

A boy has only just been born and he already knows that washing hands is urgent. 133