Fair Enough

Q: What is it that you most dislike?
A: Seeing fish with silver skin marinating in cream.

Jasper Johns, Vanity Fair, 2007.

Das Unheimliche

Perhaps Freud was anticipating robot therapists for autistic children.

"The idea that robots will teach people to relate to others, she says, is as fallacious as the argument that e-mail facilitates telephone conversation and then direct discussions."

Dr. Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 2009

Coronary Circulation

(via swivelchair)

Kidneys

But who doesn't like eating kidney? Kidney is, after all, such an accurate thermometer in matters of love.

Peter Altenberg, "Die Niere," 1913.

Diagnosis

Or make the patient cover his eyes so that he cannot see, and say, “Look out, I’m going to prick you!” and do not prick him. Then say, “I pricked you on the foot,” and if he agrees, it is a sign of leprosy.

Jordan of Turre, fr. "The Symptoms of Lepers" 1320 (via Lapham's)