“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self- deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.”
Samuel Johnson: Rambler #8 (April 14, 1750)
Kathy approached me at a conference about a week ago*. She was a drug company representative whom I was familiar with, having seen her around the hospital over several years, rain or shine. An unfailing smile always at the ready, you could be assured that Kathy would be bearing food from Maxwell Road Hawker Centre, or little gifts for less hostile medical oncologists than myself. Nevertheless, we always had a civil relationship, even though I constantly declined all pharmaceutical largesse, from pillows emblazoned with logos all the way to including free business class flights to Prague (yes, Prague).
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