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...routine case: Manuel was an office worker, 31 years old, a little overweight but in otherwise good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out. So I had him come back a week later, then two more weeks later. The knee joint was ok but at the fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem...
...Does everything have to be political? Why can't Rowling's explanation that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay" simply be an author's attempt to describe her vision of a character and how she imagined a broader fictional life to skillfully shape a written character? I am as bothered by this article as I would be by conservatives complaining that Rowling's statement was part of some gay agenda. Timothy Koirtyohann, Fort Worth, Texas...
...Sixties”), with a little reading and a little faith the connections soon become clear.The effortless brilliance of his modular style is that, after building up one school of thought, he can quickly dismantle it and show which pieces became part of adjacent schools of thought, which changed shape and became different schools of thought, and which were never used again. Suddenly, sentences like, “[Alban Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra] are fully symphonic in conception, Schoenbergian in content but Mahlerian in form” make total sense, as Berg, Schoenberg, and Mahler...
Does everything have to be politcal? Why can't Rowling's explanation that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay" simply be an author's attempt to describe her vision of a character and how she imagined a broader fictional life to skillfully shape a written character? I am as bothered by this article as I would be by conservatives complaining that Rowling's statement was part of some gay agenda...
...Early New England lawmakers imported the British practice of chartering committees to shut people up. In a crisis, one need only appoint a task force to study it, then watch the bureaucratic symphony take shape...