Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray

the tank of disinfectant where brains were heaped like cauliflowers,

does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones?

“If medical practitioners wanted to save lives,” said Baxter, “instead of making money out of them, they would unite to prevent diseases, not work separately to cure them.

I am a collector of childhoods since that collision destroyed all memory of my own.”