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WHILE DOING research surgery on a rat recently, I had the unsettling experience of seeing the rat begin to move its rear leg. This reaction is common to animals under anaesthetic: it results from reflexes at the level of the spinal cord rather than conscious awareness of pain. I knew I had used the proper dose of anaesthetic, but I was disturbed nonetheless. I couldn't help imagining what it would be like to experience such surgery without anaesthesia...
...never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would guide the car to the curb, I would push from the rear. But he hopped out, held one hand on the steering wheel and pushed with all his might. This is a man with a pacemaker; at his age, what was he thinking of? Explained Pepper: 'I thought you needed help...
...Hanover, the women had just as easy a time with their opponents, amassing 72 1/2 points, while Brown took second with 55 and Dartmouth brought up the rear with a meager 31 points...
...natural potential for violence and destruction. Rape need not be involved. Was not that you, so many years ago, standing on the sidelines while that other boy was bullied in the playground? Or you in the crowd that razzed the old drunk in the park? Or you in the rear when they set fire to the cat? Child's play, possibly, but boy's play primarily; and the child becomes the man. If you have cast off most of the cruelty of boyhood, still some of the fascination with cruelty remains. The fascination is a form of cruelty...
...guts in spelling everything out; she discusses her relationships in painstaking detail, emphasizing that through it all both Dick and Renee have always been heterosexual. Raskind, it seems, spent a lot of time reworking his own body within limits. For instance, he used to tie his penis behind his rear end to hide it. Before his emasculation he would sleep with men but wear an impenetrable girdle. When his masculine side asserted itself. Raskind was very "sexually active" with women, even while his estrogen injections were still working: surprisingly, to say the least, he lived with women at several points...