Status Updates From Arrowsmith

You have curiosity and you are stubborn.
You do not accept rules. Therefore I t'ink you will either make a very good scientist or a very bad one, and if you are bad enough, you will be popular with the rich ladies who rule this city, New York, and you can gif lectures for a living or even become, if you get to be plausible enough, a college president. So anyvay, it will be interesting."

I will not be middle-aged and cautious and monogamist and moral! It's against my religion. I demand the right to be free--

she was as easily and automatically contented by herself as a pussycat, and he had never before worried about her amusement.a

does anything matter, except making love and sleeping and eating and being flattered?

He had the personal touchiness of most propagandists; he believed that because he was sincere, therefore his opinions must always be correct. To demand that he be accurate and his statements, to quote Raymond pearls dictum: "as a matter of objective scientific fact, extremely little is known about why the mortality from tuberculosis has declined"-- this was to be a scoundrel who really liked to befoul the pavements.

Finally, thankfully, med story continues.

under repair!

Struggling with subplot tangent and hoping to plot gets medically back on track. This era and relationships always feels painfully unfair and drawn out. Will try to keep reading. 🤞