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off the main shelf. She could have surgery to fix it if she wanted, the doctor told us when delivering his diagnosis, but that would be dangerous. So she held off, and over the following years her spine broke, effectively, into two separate pieces. For Julia, unlike me, the option of faking a normal body sailed a long time ago, which might explain her comparatively cavalier attitude to her physical self. She recently had ABSOLUTE WRECK printed across her favorite sweatshirt, and she tends
the American College of Surgeons in 1980, and in 1990 he was awarded the Master of Surgery degree for his self-published A Clinical and Pathological Atlas: The Records of a Surgeon in St Vincent, the West Indies . The book illustrates and discusses many of the conditions that he attended during his decades of practice. In the world of medicine he was known before his retirement as ‘the isolated
affectionately (the diminutive as pet name), but also in some way as ‘reduced’ (the author’s alter ego, but with less substance).39 A BBC programme on Yerofeev recorded by Pawel Pawlikowski40 shortly before Yerofeev died introduces some of the originals for the characters in the novel, including one drunk who recalls a form of literary duelling with Yerofeev and others, in which the participants challenged each other as to who could best recite literature from memory. In the programme Yerofeev has to use a voice box in order to speak, following surgery for throat cancer. The
horrific violations, as part of Mengele’s unhinged program of genetic research. The doctor injected dyes into twin’s eyes to attempt to change their color, sewed twins together to create conjoined pairs, castrated or sterilized twins to try to change their sex, and planned to have male twins impregnate female twins to see if their children would be twins, too. He often used one twin in a pair as a control for the other, exposing the primary victim to contagious diseases, poisons, or surgery without