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posted by DrPat at 11/30/2004 10:04:00 AM
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Hi, Dr. Pat. I'm adding this to your blog rather than my own. Tonight I've just begun reading Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), which begins:
I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan in August of 1974.
"While thus employed, Gerard was busy about the seated corpse and to his amazement, Denys saw a luminous glow spreading rapidly over the white face. Gerard blew out the candle. And on this the corpse's face shone still more like a candle. Denys shook in his shoes and his teeth chattered.
"'What in heaven's name is this?' he whispered.
"'Hush! 'Tis but phosphorus. But 'twill serve.'"
Quote from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade which opens the book The 13th Element by John Emsley.
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