Inherent Vice: Adherent Meaning

umberto rossi umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it
Sat Sep 12 02:23:39 CDT 2009


On 11 Sep 2009 at 22:17, alice wellintown wrote:

> Do you hire doctor House to diagnose your
> health issues even though he pops pain killers like tic tacks? Is he a
> better doctor because he takes the pain killers? Would he be better if
> he didn't take them. If he quit the drugs would he be almost as great
> and live a lot longer and perhaps save more lives?  Or would he die
> sooner, perhaps take his own life?

What's the point of this? A doctor is not a writer. What do you do 
when you have toothache, read Dostoevsky?
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umberto rossi




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