At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.
Alastair ReynoldsYou worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
Alastair Reynolds