A Calendar is not a thing that actually tells you what day it is. It just gives you a list of options to choose from.
A Calendar is a method of reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
The Clinic is the institutionalization of the medical gaze a hearing gaze and a speaking gaze. Clinical experience represents a moment of balance between speech and spectacle.
The Clinic is not just a place to diagnose and treat sick persons... it is also a way of thinking and speaking, is a discursive practice that links health with knowledge.
The Clinic is a discourse that enables us to think about disease when we make statements about health and death. It operates not only in its familiar textual domain, the medical journal, but in pictures of the scene at the sickbed, and poetry about disease.
Flight is unnatural — if God had really intended men to fly, He'd make it easier to get to the airport.
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