How can I find a rational answer if I can't even think of a question?
Sometimes the darkness seeped from the cracks and those it touched might get hurt. Ace had learned from her own bruises that no one who met the Doctor was left unchanged. Yet he was kind, compassionate, spiky and often angry; vulnerable to all mortal foibles. But that might be deliberate. He embraced them eagerly as if they were toys. Lingering on one world or another, as if to play them out or test their capacity. He was just as dangerous as the evil he attracted and opposed. So what if he did have eyes in the back of his head, had appalling taste in clothes and careered around the universe in a time machine shaped like a police box?
— Todd, w-what are you doing at Lacey's school?
— I'm not at Lacey's school. I'm at the office. What are you doing calling her on her cell phone?
— Well, you screen my calls to the house.
— You know, the phone works both ways, Megs. She could call you if she wanted to.
— Why would she want to? I'm the bad guy, aren't I?
— I'm Rachel Green. I'm Carol's ex-husband's sister's roommate. Ha, ha.
— It's nice to meet you. I'm Dr. Franzblau. I'm your roommate's brother's ex-wife's obstetrician.
— But what about like creativity? See, I write music for a living. Will I still be able to do that?
— Do you write with your testicles?
— Best Little Chapel, do you know where that is?
— I do. It's at the corner of Get A Map and Fuck Off.
— How much time do I have left?
— Perhaps only days
Mrs Nordberg, l think we can save your husband's arm. Where would you like it sent?
According to split-brain physiology, your brain is divided like a walnut into two halves.”The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason, he says. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of our reality. The right side of your brain, the doctor tells her, is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. “Your left brain is a scientist,” the doctor says. “Your right brain is an artist.”
— Medicine has made some progress in the last 20 years.
— Maybe technology is better now — but you still can't cure cancer or HIV.
— Yes, there will always be an illness we can't cure.
