Jacob Lawrence, "Surgery, Harlem Hospital" (1953)
Jacob Lawrence, Surgery, Harlem Hospital (1953)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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July 4, 2004:

Rhythm, and the trend to panic.

A slow beat, steady, sustained. Soothing. Could almost sleep.

Faster pulses, or unpredictable ones. Alarming. Breathing becomes shallow and you fight the compulsion to thrash.

It would be a good time to get me out of here now. It would be a good time now. It would be good.