"Psychology 402: Brain and Behavior" by Sharon Venezio

When I discover I have to dissect a sheep's brain,I go down the hall to Animal Behavior and plead my case,but it's too late.  I'll have to pry my way throughthe four ventricles, push pins into gray matter and breatheformaldehyde through a useless white mask.I hold the brain in my awful hands, make an incision at the baseof the cerebellum, place a red pin into the pineal gland,a green pin into the amygdala: here's where it feels joy,here's where it feels fear, here's where it remembersthe beautiful dying stars. 

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