"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Poetic Death: The Israeli poet/warrior Abba Kovner’s final collection of poems, entitled 'Sloan-Kettering', was reviewed yesterday in the New York Times. The poems deal with his throat cancer, hospitals, and dying:
“Sloan-Kettering'' is a work of self-commemoration that takes the side of continuing existence, ''of life flowing beneath the surface of all / the words, like a fountain flowing, cascading / with confidence, telling no lies.'' It has the distinctive air of a book written from the far side of alienation, from the vanishing point of life, and it shimmers with the dark radiance -- the stark beauty -- of last things. posted by Sydney on
9/23/2002 06:17:00 AM
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