Immediately upon arrival in Columbia County this evening I was presented with eighty cows. The dairy farm had let the cows wander back onto our land, and they had congregated right next to the back door of the farm to see what the hell was going on. I made friends with a few of them, feeding them tufts of grass and such, and I gotta say, they're pretty cute. It's like a giant chorus of female dancers backstage at a country production of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
Chopin, of course, looked at them and immediately the weight of the world was on his shoulders, as if there were some ancient duty lurking in his hindbrain. You know how you have nightmares of being in school, taking tests, years after you graduate? I think the Chopes sees a gaggle of cows in the same light.
It's Tessa's birthday again, and as I have oft said, the limitations of this blog are again apparent.
The Celextant, May 8, 2002
Met with Jonathan Bloch today and we discussed more about antidepressants and the placebo effect. I'd like to know one more thing: does the placebo effect work on a patient when the patient knows the drug has a high placebo effect?
Posted by at May 8, 2002 11:27 PM