“You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.”

—  John Leonard

"On Being Embarrassed" (p. 139)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

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