Tag: medicine
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Top-Class No. 1 Swami Fred. Get a life!
I have decided to become a Guru. Wikipedia (who know about these things) define ‘guru’ as ‘a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a teacher, guide or master of certain knowledge’ Well, I can do that. Here is my problem. All my life I have fairly effectively avoided the road to untold riches –…
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View from the Armchair
Television is a tranquilizer. All winter it is our solace and our comfort, helping us to pass those long, cold nights in peace. Television is, to the twenty-first century, what gin was to the nineteenth. Of course, we don’t like to admit this, because we don’t like to accept we are addicted to television. Just…
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Firefly
Once there was a world of bright air and conversation; once there was a house, its rooms filled with laughter. There was a woman whose arms were soft and consolation swift; a melee of children, a barking of dogs, a cat that would lay across his knees, singing to him. Once there was a bed…