From the Books

excerpts and thoughts

[from-the-books]

Conditions favorable. Tragedy to follow.

- Albert Camus

This one came from a book I was reading while visiting my brother in Montreal. He had just got out of hospital and was recovering by way of a portable battery powered suction pump attached to the massive open wound on the back of his leg. It was about the size of a getto blaster, permanently affixed to his leg via a couple of tubes, made beeping noises every now and then, siphoned blood from the wound, weighed a fair bit, and was worth a small fortune. 

[from-the-books]

Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of so grievous an encumbrance.

- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal