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Writing Anything As An Expert Is Really Poisonous To The Writing Process, Because You Lose The Quality Of Discovery.

It Felt—nearly Twenty-five Hundred Years After Hippocrates Had Naively Coined The Overarching Term Karkinos—that Modern Oncology Was Hardly Any More Sophisticated In Its Taxonomy Of Cancer.

In Paris, Friend Of Bequerel’s, A Young Physicist-chemist Couple Named Pierre And Marie Curie, Began To Scour The Natural World For Even More Powerful Chemical Sources Of X-rays. Pierre And Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, A Penniless Polish Immigrant Living In A Garret In Paris) Had Met At The Sorbonne And Been Drawn To Each Other Because Of A Common Interest In Magnetism.

Cancer's Life Is A Recapitulation Of The Body's Life, Its Existence A Pathological Mirror Of Our Own. Susan Sontag Warned Against Overburdening An Illness With Metaphors. But This Is Not A Metaphor. Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

Most Days, I Go Home And I Feel Rejuvenated. I Feel Ebullient.