Of the sick and the well
Posted: November 18, 2012 at 3:01 a.m.
“. . . it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” — Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby The sick and well each live in separate if parallel universes.
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Perspective, Pages 81 on 11/18/2012
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