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War of Nerves
The surgeon's secret.
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O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith
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A Nightingale Named Nathan
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
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Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
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Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost
A proverb of great pith.
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What to Her is Plato?
An academic debate.
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Francini? Who is Francini?
Introduction and variations.
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Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down
Rules of the game.
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No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
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The Importance of Being 65937
It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost
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When Givers Prove Unkind
Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.
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The Man from Quasilia
Another county heard from.
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Why Did the Day Go Backwards?
To see the night before.
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If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
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If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
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In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc
""And let slip the dogs of war.""
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Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death. King Lear
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For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus
You can get there from here.
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Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
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Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things
Whistling in the dark.
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Weave Nets To Catch The Wind
Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence. John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
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Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy
The unmoved mover.
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Where Did All the Roses Go?
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
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Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
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Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth
Self-diagnosis.
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Then, Suddenly, Panic
""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)