Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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The Economist delivers an obituary for Hamilton Naki, a black surgeon who practiced sub rosa in apartheid South Africa. Naki removed the donor's heart that Chistiaan Barnard transplanted into Louis Washkansky, the first recipient of a human heart transplant.
Bitterness was not in his nature, and he had had years of training to accept his life as apartheid had made it. On that December day in 1967, for example, as Barnard played host to the world's adoring press, Mr Naki, as usual, caught the bus home. Strikes, riots and road blocks often delayed it in those days. When it came, it carried him—in his carefully pressed suit, with his well-shined shoes—to his one-room shack in the township of Langa.
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Jorn Barger makes 50 conjectures about James Joyce.
23. Mulligan's shavingbrush is chryselephantine.
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It's too bad that my mother isn't online regularly, because she would love the Erma Bombeck Museum. Bombeck was a nationally-published humor columnist who wrote for our local papers in Dayton, Ohio. (Thanks to Netsurfer Digest.) posted: 9:38:46 AM |
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