Read God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian Online
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
inventions of posion gas, tanks and airplanes, flame throwers and land mines, and barbed-wire entanglements everywhere. I hoped to get Mary Shelley's opinions of the atomic bombs we dropped on the unarmed men, women, and children of Hiroshima and
promise to try again. This time, though, she would only rhapsodize about her parents, who were, of course, William and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and about her husband, Percy
Shelley, and his friends and
hers, John Keats and Lord
I said many
people nowadays thought
"Frankenstein" was the name of the monster, and not of the scientist who created him.
She said, "That's not so ignorant after There are
two monsters in my story, not one. And one of them, the scientist, is indeed named Frankenstein." This is
in Huntsville, Texas, signing
off.
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i nave
from
having interviewed the poet Dr. Philip Strax, S-T-R-AX. He died at the age of ninety on the same day as the baseball player Joe Dimaggio, and was the author of this charming couplet:
better to have love and lust
Than let our apparatus rust.
Author of three volumes of poetry, Philip Strax was also a radiologist. He refined the use of x-rays, previously useful mainly for looking at bones, so they could detect malignancies in the soft tissue of breasts. The number of women's lives extended by early detection of cancers, thanks to mammograms, in baseball terms might be called thousands upon thousands of or runs batted in.
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