| 1 | Liver's blood capacity meets the need of the body. The condition of the liver determines that of the tendons, which is unlocked and runs smoothly. | |
| 2 | In Communist terminology, the regulars were compared to bones, the guerrillas to tissue and the militia to flesh. | |
| 3 | The body, be it of the indulgent fool oblivious of aging, illness, and death, or of the woman they crave, is nothing but sinews and vessels wrapped over a skeleton frame. | |
| 4 | The artist's own silhouette inside the painting is also not curable; his hair, his face, his muscles and his blood pressure, had already become the best shelter for the microorganisms. | |
| 5 | I burrowed deeper into my den, pressing my face against the inner ribs of the tree, inhaling its sweet rot and dankness, the grain of the wood rough against my skin. |