CURE Quote
In seven different ways, people try to cure the fools of their folly: it is excised with a knife (Bosch’s Cutting the Stone, bound with a barrel hoop, smothered with a bellows, sanded away with a plane, removed with a drill,
drowned with water and even purged with a clyster. These healing processes, however, are futile: in the eighth and final scene, countless new fools are sown. Folly is like an ineradicable weed that germinates again and again.10 Sometimes the ‘doctors’ themselves are dressed as fools, which underscores all the more the senselessness of their labours.1— Jan Van der Stock, In Search of Utopia: Art and Science in the Era of Thomas More, 2018-
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Dry Eyes: What Kind of Cure is This?
“Sometime last year, I noticed my eyes were itchy again. The problem has appeared off and on over the past few years. When I was in Arequipa three years ago, my right eye was very itchy. I went to an … Continue reading
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