an impressive bust -or- a little head

i received this phrenological sculpture for my birthday recently from my kid sister. you will note that the very spot on the side of my cranium where i have been having a headache for weeks is the very spot that controls my desire for liquids and is right below the ingenuity zone. yikes!

the back of the bust reads:

For thirty years I have studied Crania and living heads from all parts of the world and have found in every instance that there is a perfect correspondence between the conformation of the healthy skull of an individual and his known characteristics.

—L. N. Fowler

“in every instance a perfect correspondence”!?!?!?! this burgeoning pseudo-scientific field sure sounds like the wave of the future. i hope that it doesn’t replace metoposcopy, though or my dear old daddy will be out of a job.