We live in a society of automatons, of machines tightly coupled with organic bodies themselves denatured and reassembled, discursively by the teacher, politician, and boss as well as literally under the knife of the surgeon or the hand of the prostheticist.

Hospital Staff.—To be Assistant Surgeons to the Forces. – Assistant Surgeons Angus John Mackay, Supernumerary in the 1st Foot; Albert Hawkins, Supernumerary in the 4th Foot; […]

Many great ideas poured forth in their discussion.

You fell, like another dove, by the most chaffy shrap that ever was set before the eyes of winged fowl.