Cheerskep: My immdiate next door neighbour will begin a surgery residency at
Sloan-Kettering in July of '09.
Good illustration of the use of anecdote to clarify points.
Geoff C
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Geoff, Neurology and "Art"
In a message dated 12/21/08 1:39:10 PM, [email protected] writes:
You may assume that I aim for a certain ambiguity -- evoking both the
serious and the comic. And what isn't both anyway?
About your first sentence above: So am I, William -- in the right context.
As
I said, that summer posting sounded damn angry. I've usually thought the
old
line, "Can't you take a joke?" was hideous. As a boss, I used to take it
as my
business to land on guys who used to justify tgheir anti-feminist "fun".
As for the second line: "And what isn't both anyway?" Lot's of things
aren't both. I have a friend right now in Sloan Kettering, the New York
cancer
hospital. We are expecting a call at any hour from his wife telling us he
has
died. There will be no element whatever of the "comic" in that call.
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