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...under the thunder and rain, to be thinking of performing, that is to say consummating, that is to say. He stealthily felt his way down to find out what was his body's view of this constatation, but all was quiet there, as though he were calmly reading Jane Austen...
...Thursdays he has noon lecture classes, Tuesday evenings a seminar. Afternoons, he receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads. He is a Trollope addict?"Trollope tells a story as it should be told, lots of nourishment and no nonsense"?and finds a few minutes' perusal of Jane Austen's easy "rhythm" just right to prime his own writing pump. Like Trollope, he believes that "writing is high craftsmanship, rather than inspiration." His wit and seeming spontaneity generally come only after five revisions...
...Gerald Austen, professor of surgery and chief of the surgical cardio-vascular unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, agreed with Nadas that the ethical implications of heart transplant operations needed further study. "I wouldn't want to imply that the ones that have been done haven't been done just right ethically," he added...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...
...Austen acknowledged that a lot of work had been done on heart transplants in dogs prior to the human operations, but he would not characterize the results as favorable. "We do know," he said, "that in the great majority of cases with dogs they run into a lot of problems, some dogs live for a long perod of time though, that is to say, for months...