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Monstrosity, medicine, and misunderstanding

Traditional ceremonies and spiritual practices. are precious gifts given to Indian people by the Creator. These sacred ways have enabled us as Indian people to survive –miraculously – the onslaught of five centuries of continuous effort by non- Indians and their government to exterminate us by extinguishing all traces of our traditional ways of life. Today, these precious sacred traditions continue to afford American Indian people of all [nations] the strength and vitality we need in the struggle we face everyday; they also offer us our best hope for a stable and vibrant future. These sacred traditions are an enduring and. | Monstrosity medicine and misunderstanding The infamy and polemics of the twentieth-century literary giant Louis-Ferdinand Céline Death and suffering can t matter nearly as much as I think they do. Since they are so common my taking them so seriously must mean that I am insane. I must try to be saner. Louis-Ferdinand Céline RZgadoo 1Pxiii Geoffrey B. Crawford MD The author AOA Albany Medical College 2007 has completed his internship in Internal Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and is beginning a Preventive Medicine Residency at the University of Maryland to focus on International Health and Policy. Celine the paradox the monster the misunderstood victim the ferocious French writer of works that were bombastic burning bellicose the anti-Semite forever scorned by history the impossible contradictory paranoid maniac one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. But at the same time the compassionate Céline obsessed with human anguish and suffering the physician Dr. Destouches. The list of literary greats he inspired is remarkable Gunter Grass William Burroughs Henry Miller Samuel Beckett Norman Mailer Jack Kerouac Joseph Heller Ken Kesey Philip Roth and Charles Bukowski just to name a few. Kurt Vonnegut says of Celine Every writer is in his debt and so is anyone else interested in discussing lives in their entirety. By being so impolite he demonstrated that perhaps half of all experience the animal half had been concealed by good manners. No honest writer or speaker will ever want to be polite again. 1px An unlikely figure to emerge as a literary pioneer and an eminent modern influence Celine born Louis-Ferdinand Destouches in 1894 in Courbevoie France was a practicing 14 The Pharos Summer 2009 Monstrosity medicine and misunderstanding doctor in Paris before publishing his breakthrough masterpiece Voyage au bout de la nuit Journey to the End of the Night in 1932 at the age of thirty-eight. Most famous for his loosely autobiographical .