Saturday, 17-May-2008 16:42:23 CDT
Quote of the Day:


	"I have examined Bogota," he said, "and the case is clearer to me.

I think very probably he might be cured."

	"That is what I have always hoped," said old Yacob.

	"His brain is affected," said the blind doctor.

	The elders murmured assent.

	"Now, what affects it?"

	"Ah!" said old Yacob.

	"This," said the doctor, answering his own question.  "Those queer

things that are called the eyes, and which exist to make an agreeable soft

depression in the face, are diseased, in the case of Bogota, in such a way

as to affect his brain.  They are greatly distended, he has eyelashes, and

his eyelids move, and cosequently his brain is in a state of constant

irritation and distraction."

	"Yes?" said old Yacob.  "Yes?"

	"And I think I may say with reasonable certainty that, in order

to cure him completely, all that we need do is a simple and easy surgical

operation -- namely, to remove those irritant bodies."

	"And then he will be sane?"

	"Then he will be perfectly sane, and a quite admirable citizen."

	"Thank heaven for science!" said old Yacob.

		-- H.G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind"






God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

		-- Paul Valery