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Cory Doctorow Eastern Standard Tribe 8




Dedication 1.
I once had a Tai Chi instructor who explained the difference
For my parents.
between Chinese and Western medicine thus: “Western
medicine is based on corpses, things that you discover by
For my family.
cutting up dead bodies and pulling them apart. Chinese
medicine is based on living flesh, things observed from vital,
For everyone who helped me up and for everyone I let down.
You know who you are. Sincerest thanks and most heartfelt moving humans.”
apologies.
The explanation, like all good propaganda, is stirring and
stilted, and not particularly accurate, and gummy as the hook
Cory
from a top-40 song, sticky in your mind in the sleep-deprived
noontime when the world takes on a hallucinatory hypperreal
clarity. Like now as I sit here in my underwear on the roof of a
sanatorium in the back woods off Route 128, far enough from
the perpetual construction of Boston that it’s merely a cloud of
dust like a herd of distant buffalo charging the plains. Like now
as I sit here with a pencil up my nose, thinking about
homebrew lobotomies and wouldn’t it be nice if I gave myself
one.

Deep breath.

The difference between Chinese medicine and Western
medicine is the dissection versus the observation of the thing in
motion. The difference between reading a story and studying a
story is the difference between living the story and killing the
story and looking at its guts.
Cory Doctorow Eastern Standard Tribe 9




School! We sat in English class and we dissected the stories 2.
that I’d escaped into, laid open their abdomens and tagged their
organs, covered their genitals with polite sterile drapes,
Art Berry was born to argue.
recorded dutiful notes en masse that told us what the story was