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Article: EUCHARIST OF ENLIGHTMENT OF SUPERANNUATED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1989
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Some 20 years ago, I was lucky enough to obtain the attentions of
a great surgeon who snipped out eight inches of my abused entrails
and reattached the loose ends so neatly that his work has lasted to
this day.
Surgical interventions are provocative of introspection. One
learns to pay attention, to recognize the relative importance of
things. The operation was serious, potentially life-threatening.
What I most remember about it (besides the taste of Jell-O
after a week or so of dining via tubes) is the primacy of the
innards. Man may or may not have a soul; but he certainly does
have bowels.
Poets and preachers, philosophers and politicians sing and
rant and cogitate and calculate ...