The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and exte...
You have been misinformed. Probably by your congressman, the way it sounds.
ReplyDeleteI think my congressman was misinformed when he was told he could take over my health care and not have to deal with the unsavory aspects.
ReplyDeleteGovernment control of health care doesn't bother me. Currently I suffer with corporate control of health care, via my workplace, which is equally as disastrous. I am sending stool samples to everyone.
ReplyDeleteJust think, I could elevate the level of discourse here by going back to talking about monkeys.
ReplyDeleteBut surely you are talking about monkeys now? The zoological term "Government" is a dead giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI classify most in government in the invertebrate phyla.
ReplyDeleteI haven't observed discourse this good since reading about the argument between Liza Minelli and David Gest over which one gave the other genital herpes.
ReplyDeleteIt was the monkey.
ReplyDeleteI ennjoyed reading this
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