Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
That's worst than gonerreha, man!
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.