DOCTOR: What is it? PATIENT: I have been afraid of noise and strong light for two years. When I’m exposed to these, I feel tense and restless. DOCTOR: Do you have other symptoms? PATIENT: Yes. At times I suffer from palpitations and shortness of breath. I sleep poorly and am troubled almost nightly by frightening dreams. DOCTOR: What sort of dreams do you have? PATIENT: They are different. For instance, once I dreamed that I fell down from a precipice. On another occasion I was chased by a wolf, and in other dreams I have lost my way in a desert. —adapted from A Dialogue in the Hospitals THE FRAGRANT HILLS We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results. —Mao WHEN I WAS nine I had scarlatina, which was something like being boiled alive.
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