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[JLT]

“Things are good just in case they are pleasant, and bad just in case they are painful.”

~ Socrates

So root canals are bad?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Root canals are only bad if done without anaesthetic.

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

--Frank Herbert

 

[Louanne Learning]

Root canals are only bad if done without anaesthetic.

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

--Frank Herbert

I read that today on Instagram

 

[JLT]

Root canals are only bad if done without anaesthetic.

Well, I can certainly speak to that. When I was a child, one of my teeth was damaged to the point where it had to be removed completely, root and all, and replaced with an artificial tooth on a post. This was done without anesthetic, because (as the dentist explained) he couldn't know whether he'd gotten it all until it stopped hurting. I cried and cried, of course. This was done around 1960, as I can best recall. Dentistry has come a long way in the intervening years.

 

[JLT]

But, to get back to the topic of this thread:

"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row."

--Ray Bradbury