Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Loretta Battista and Evelyn Dissin Dr Albert Lamperti My irst stop in tracking down Simone was going to be Anatomy Mn Diamond had given m.j a cony of Simorv '-. „ciOr nit: v Jjk for v v p.. u tlm-e , • jr: l i tanned or ,fl beginnin: 'ook 13 ‘or n'i, ■ ■• o’ w , sn-had disoop - wed Anatomy mat on tne seventh floor of the building. An elevator lurched ooen drunkenly and swayed a few timet. I got In warly and punched the button for seven Thif doors closed arthritically and the bo jolted upward I made it to seven and the doors crept back I steeped out and gulped a breath, glad to be back on terra iirma I almost gagged. It vnelled worse than Big Sid had when they fisned him out of the Delaware last summer Mv wyes watered A kid hustled by in a green housedress worn backwards Ho STank of the same stuff May t he was going to decontamination I ontered the door he had come out and I was almost sick. The smell was ten times worse in here Worse yet. there were rows o stiffs extending down the length of the room There were mure ‘ ds in green dresses hunched over the bodies cutting them up wit' tiny knives. A hard case I knew. Rocco “The Blender Spotacelli. came to mind Rocco preferred meat cleavers or high speed rotary saws in his line of work He would have been in hysterics here I wolked up to the kid nearest the door He was tall, black-haired. built on the thin side, but wiry He was excavating something in the chest I didn't want to know what I cleared my throat ‘'Pardon'', I said, Who’s in charge of this creep show? The kid looked up from his hole sired mo uo for a moment and said. I think you'd be referring to Dr Neck And where might I find the good doctor? ■ bantered You can't miss him Medium height, gray crew-cut. surrounded by about 20 geeks I turned, thon spun bock You know Rocco Spattculll? The kid cracked up. The Blender? Sure I never saw anyone do such rvtat work with n drill press, He could have been a surgeon. I looked into a side room off of the main area. More bodies, more green dresses Probably somebody was getting a ferocious kickback on the laundry No Neck, though. Another room, the same I w.is even getting used to the smell I found him in the fourth room. Like the kid said, there was a host of peoplo around the guy I wondered how big a host was They were practically crawling up his back as he went on about something called 0 plexus and pulled out different bunches of antique white spaghetti from the arm of one of the bodies The kids around him scribbled furiously I watched hen pull out noodles for five more minutes and then hn wound down The flock dispersed I walked over You Neck? I said in my best TV private eve voice, pitched low with a suspcious ev« squint I Hashed him my license at the same time. A doadlv combo He yawned, no doubt to cover his fear Hn said. A peep? It wasn’t working Yeah. I said. I'm looking for a girl. Simone Diamond Here's her picture. I handed nim the glossy Mrs Diamond had given me He looked at it for a moment. I though I nod .1 loser, but then his eves lit up, Simone Diamond Of course But she isn’t around here now She came through three years ago. A little weak on the upper extremity, but excellent on the distribution of the celiac trunk Yeah, that's Simone. I said, always working on her celiac trunk She was thinking of lacquering it. you know I wondered what the hell I was talking about Neck shook his head What are you doing anyway. Goldblatt? Is she in danger’ Is she hurt? I honestly don't know Mom and Dad haven'? sewn her in three year and they want to know where she it He thought about It briofly I'd try Biochem if | were you. I think Simone hooked up with someone then on a research project They might know where she is now “ I thanked him and headed for the door On an impulse I said, You know Rocco- ''Spotacelli? Yeah It's too bod that he never took any formal training in Anatomy He'd have been one of the greats He grinned, on almost elfin grin that caught me completely off guard He waved goodbye with his little knife and turned away to start work on another body Another horde descended I went out the doors and took the stairs dawn, out to the fray air Enough for one day (continued on page 341 29 Chris demonstrates his platysma, again.