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Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Wednesday, April 16/2025

 


Flunked out of med school?  Corner of a field unofficially, and probably illegally, used as an informal mini dumping spot. As usual my eye is drawn to books. Gray’s Anatomy is a Turkish edition but several other hardcover medical and pharmaceutical reference works are in English. Hard to imagine anyone possessing these and not wanting to keep them for reference or sell them to someone beginning a similar course. Loose handwritten notes scattered as well. Hadn’t been there long as we’d passed the spot a couple of hours earlier and they weren’t there then.

Curious about the backstory. Did once know of a woman not entirely in her right mind who destroyed her husband’s unfinished doctoral thesis.  Maybe she had genuine grievances.

Did we score a couple? Of course. You never know when a good reference book will come in handy. And illustrations larger than a mini iPad screen.