Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that encounter the dentist had not seemed a dentist, but a has-been, a once-dentist, brought back from the junkyards of time to haunt the fourth floor of the University Health Services, a green, sickly, pale no-good, who was only strong because of the arsenal of machinery around him. And knowing this, that only the power of the machinery made the dentist strong, the patient had hated...
...DENTIST was a tall, thin man who wore glasses and spoke with a raspy voice. "We're going to do the right side today, is that it?" he asked cheerfully...
...patient answered. He had met the dentist once before, several months before, when the dentist--an oral surgeon, the nurse told him--had extracted two of his wisdom teeth. At that first encounter, the patient had hated the dentist, not with the hatred--that of the weak for the strong...
...different. The dentist's causal greeting, his coy smile at the nurse who stood nearby, and his jaunty, almost arrogant manner took the patient surprise. He hadn't prepared himself for this. He started at the dentist's body, strangely supple and relaxed, felt his won body small and weak, and then saw the dentist reaching for the huge, infernal, hated, death-inferring hypodermic needle that the nurse held out to him. The patient knew what was different this time. He was afraid...
...Your woman when she married me had an awful resentment as I was with a full set of me own natural teeth. And she couldn't abide it as she was with out real ones of her own. She wasn't satisfied till I went to the dentist down there over the way and had every last one of mine torn out of my head and a set like her own put in. Here are hers now. Just look at that. Sure you never know where justice will strike next...