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...diagnostic procedures. And he frankly describes a surgeon's key motive: impatience. "The guy that goes into surgery," he writes, is the fellow who doesn't want to sit around waiting for results. He "wants the quick cure of the scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into the abdomen for another four hours...
...Pill and abortion are obviously part of a loosening of morals that undermines the family in some ways; but these developments, too, can have their positive effects by reducing the number of pregnancies that lead to hasty and ill-considered marriages, and by allowing couples to put off having children until they are older and have had time to enjoy themselves, to travel and to grow up themselves. The reduction in unwanted pregnancies will also lessen the number of children who are rejected even before they are born and the financial hardship brought on by unplanned large families...
...that chimneys and omnipresence and other things that I answered to, but not very well. Then a week later, my father sat down with me and explained to me that there was indeed no Santa. It had just been a game. That Christmas Eve I took my first sleeping pill. I didn't bother pecking out the window before getting in bed to see if the sleigh were flying through the air. And I just put the potholders on my mother's rack after I finished them. My childhood had been torn asunder...
...have been contained in RNA molecules that were coded during training. As late as the mid-'60s, chemicals such as glutamic acid were thought to increase alertness in humans and even to boost IQ scores. Alas, the latest word from the lab seems to be that an intelligence pill is not around the corner...
Huxley led a short discussion after the trip. "If you take LSD, take at least a week before and a week after the trip to meditate on the act. There are other methods of tripping that take more time than swallowing a pill...