Falling down nightly...

Funny when it didn't matter?


Possibility of permanent damage to various functional centers of the brain, including the cluster controlling the movement of the eyes, and of the right arm. If so, stroke-like damage most likely caused by oxygen starvation, and/or a simple pressure caused by contusions on the left side of the brain...

Three weeks I've been in that place, and six patients have died, from healthy to dead in a day. I've watched the doctors tell their families. I refuse to say more of it.

All the news is bad, every call is a panic, everything buzzes and rings and flashes. My mother can't sleep, my father can't stay awake, and my sister can do neither.

And you mean to tell me--with all the fight an old woman has when her wiring is torn, pissing in her bed, or how hard a child holds a tree in a fucking tidal wave--that it isn't worth it? Spare me the artful horseshit, I insist on not understanding.

But what I wouldn't do for an article on modern health care...

"That power of conviction is a hard thing for any writer to sustain, and especially so once he becomes conscious of it. Fitzgerald fell apart when the world no longer danced to his music; Faulkner's conviction faltered when he had to confront Twentieth Century Negroes instead of the black symbols in his books; and when Dos Passos tried to change his convictions he lost all his power."

"What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum?"
Hunter S. Thompson