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On Your Own Terms At least you meet new words— adipose, ischemia, proctitis, cystitis, Wstula, tenesmus— those Greek and Latinate poseurs, purveyors of what passes for intelligence and class. Who would have thought that you would be intimate with that crowd, intermingling with such foreigners as ureter and sphincter, rectum and urethra, at this cocktail party of the pompous and obsequious? Me, I’d rather be monosyllabic, dumb, outside in the garden, hobnobbing with the common folk, gabbing with the simple words like good, and health, and hope. 35 ...

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