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  • You reckonise Boadishia, Colonel, with the Roman elmet, cuirass, and javeling of the period -- all studied from the hantique, sir, the glorious hantique. '

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I could really relate with some of your posts, like "Hitting home" (I have done both acute fatal and survival surgery, but ICV surgery really made me question if this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. . .turns out it wasn't) and "Last day" (I had one committee member that tried to hijack my thesis and who I envisioned javeling tossing in my minds eye on hundreds of occasions).

    Chandler, the iPod post-doc 2006

  • You reckonise Boadishia, Colonel, with the Roman elmet, cuirass, and javeling of the period — all studied from the hantique, sir, the glorious hantique.’

    The Newcomes 2006

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