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<HTML>Hope it all heals up ok, (the NHS is suprisingly good for all that we moan about it{allthough I will moan about the postie who expected me to answer the door at 7:30 yesterday to collect a parcel from amazon, grrr}). And the only medically themed bok i could think of was The Star Fracture (Ken McLeod) Which probably isn't well known enough to be on target.</HTML>
<HTML>A Nasal Passage to India?
the setting...the hospital from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
the doc...the doc from catch 22
the nurse...nurse from Romeo & Juliet (looking bewildered cause she's not THAT kind of nurse)
sharing a ward with ...the English Patient
visitor...the Raven...tap, tap, tapping and driving everyone to distraction</HTML>
<HTML>indeed. Ditto to much if not all of the above. Hope the nose feels better soon, and you're getting some peace and quiet to read those books.</HTML>
<HTML>Nobody nose how good I can live on grapes three times a day .... have been feeling very sleepy and fluy (sp.?) and still nasally sore (which reminds me ... what do you call nasal sex? ..... f**k knows) and apparently sound like Bob Geldof with a heavy cold, but am otherwise fairly well, thag you all very buch.
It's a good job I didn't have to pay for the op .... I'd have had to get a loan from the Nosa Costra.</HTML>
<HTML>a nose by any other name would smell as sweet....
Oh, Nose, thou art sick! .....
a nose is a nose is a nose is a nose .....
... and let us not forget Mr. Lear's creation, The Dong with a Luminous Nose.
(phone rings)
Hello? No, he wasn't being rude. It's a poem. Honestly. Completely innocent.</HTML>