I would also include my father's rifle that he brought back from
Vietnam that he took from the hands of a deceased Viet Cong soldier,
made in Russia and very similar to the one Oswald used. I think guns
exemplify man and his other limb that he wasn't born with, that he
felt a need to create.
And I would put my foreskin, which my parents managed to save from my
circumcision; that way, if anyone wanted to clone me, they wouldn't
have any problems. It lies like a crusty Life Saver in a small
plastic jar; I assume they keep it next to my grandmother's dentures.
I would also include the King James Bible, Nietzsche's 'Anti-Christ'
and the dictionary. So when the time capsule is opened up, they would
read the dictionary and learn our language; they would read the Bible
and would be inspired to commit terrible acts of violence; and they
would learn to read the Nietzsche book and it would enrage them that
they had spent so much time reading the other books. And the
conclusion they would come to about our society would be that there's
really no point in it -- that mankind is God's worst joke.
-- Marilyn Manson