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From: The Spectator
Date: 20021012
Author:Dalrymple, Theodore

IT's a rum world: everything is upsidedown or inside-out, a mixture of Kafka and Through the Looking-Glass, of the sinister and the hilarious. Horace Walpole said that the world is a tragedy to him who feels and a comedy to him who thinks, but to him who both feels and thinks it is a tragicomedy. One wants to do away with oneself and fall about laughing at the same time.

Such, indeed, is my daily fate. Last week, for example (and I take it only as an example), there was a man in my ward who had taken an overdose of methadone. A foolish doctor had given him a week's supply rather than a ...

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