You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your… - Richard Selzer
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your…
- Richard Selzer
You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony o… - Richard Selzer
You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony o…
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else - Richard Selzer
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God. - Richard Selzer
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. - Richard Selzer
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conce… - Richard Selzer
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conce…
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams. - Richard Selzer
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth. - Richard Selzer
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of wha… - Richard Selzer
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of wha…
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