Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures On The Alimentary Canal

Quotes

• “think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could d...”
• “I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of sea...”
• “The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and t...”
• “The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I...”
• “The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet".”
• “It tastes like water spiked with strange.”