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These thinnish, arc-less characterizations--shocking from the creator of Song of Solomon's galvanizing Milkman and Pilate, or Beloved's triumvirate of mother and daughters--detract from the novel as a whole. Again, though, this ailment of the text proved ironically rewarding for the Faneuil Hall audience, who could follow the movements of plot and character easily without the impediments of tortuous internal conflicts or irreducible psychic complexities...
...ailment, whose effects range from soreness and discomfort during extensive manual activity to permanent musculoskeletal damage to the hands, is difficult to explain. Ostensible caused include typing too much in uncomfortable positions, especially without taking breaks. Because of the role of Keyboarding in RSI, computer-science students run the highest risk. Yet for some reason, the lack of ergonomic keyboard equipment does not seem like a satisfying explanation for what has escalated from an annoyance into a bona fide plague. Why have so many students been struck by RSI? After thinking about it for quite some time, I realized that...
...always like this. Sometimes she does not recognize me and thinks I am a doctor. She complains of an ailment, which she expects me to treat. Sometimes she does not speak at all. Sometimes, when she manufactures a new narrative of our family history, she can be very funny...
...expected to agree with his nation's medical historians about the cause of Ladislaus' death (though no one is in agreement), rather than with the account of rival German historians. When Holub is quizzed on medical minutiae by his professors, he offhandedly conjectures that Ladislaus died from whatever ailment his examiner happens to be studying. The gambit works, winning him high marks in every discipline but one--gynecology...
...band frequency, Hyman solemnly advises Sylvia to fantasize that she has just made love to him, as a way to break the spell that the paralysis has come to appear to be. The scene is eminently conceivable, given the psychological pathfinding that has gone on in determinig Sylvia's ailment...