Smoking just makes things so much worse, says Dr. McNally. See your family doctor if you need help; there are more ways than ever now to assist you in getting off the lung darts.

So I replayed my '46 scenario and asked another unstandard academic, a charismatic, disenchanted philosophy professor named George Geiger, who had been Lou Gehrig's backup on the Columbia baseball team and John Dewey's last graduate student, what I should do.

On the one hand he rejects—in an allusion to Lange—the pathographical application of “crude categories” to such magnificent poetry: “It is quite dangerous to be quick about declaring something 'incomprehensible', therefore 'crazy', to call something void, trivial, farfetched, confused".

Probably top five I would have to do, I’m guessing, to get into the Tour Championship. So it’s either that or a couple weeks off. Go hard or go home.