really, none of them sound very appealing
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incandescensI spent today, and will probably spend most of tomorrow, adjusting the cross-maps for various terminological concepts that involve morphology. This would not be so aggravating if we had not previously adjusted all said cross-maps due to instructions which... well, the tactful way of putting it would be to say that they were subject to misinterpretation. This is a livejournal. I am being tactful.
(But I still think that "mycosis fungoides" sounds like something which should be in an entirely different section of the classification. Apparently it got its inappropriate name in the first place because of how it looked. Just goes to show that you can't judge a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by its cover.)
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"... You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as —"
"My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice.
"I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public."
"A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself. But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law — and there lie the glory and the wonder of it! The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations — that's the man! But so aloof is he from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you to a court and emerge with your year's pension as a solatium for his wounded character. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it? Is this a man to traduce? Foul-mouthed doctor and slandered professor — such would be your respective roles! That's genius, Watson. But if I am spared by lesser men, our day will surely come."
-- The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(But I still think that "mycosis fungoides" sounds like something which should be in an entirely different section of the classification. Apparently it got its inappropriate name in the first place because of how it looked. Just goes to show that you can't judge a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by its cover.)
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"... You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as —"
"My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice.
"I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public."
"A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself. But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law — and there lie the glory and the wonder of it! The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations — that's the man! But so aloof is he from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you to a court and emerge with your year's pension as a solatium for his wounded character. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it? Is this a man to traduce? Foul-mouthed doctor and slandered professor — such would be your respective roles! That's genius, Watson. But if I am spared by lesser men, our day will surely come."
-- The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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