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Caller One: Hello

Caller Two: Hi. Can you speak to Bob in rooms?

Caller One: Bob isn't here. What do you need?

Caller Two: Well, he wanted me to talk to you about your garden. We're looking at the story this evening.

Caller One: Look, I was walking through the park yesterday and thought it was going to rain but I just went home anyway.

Caller Two: Are you going to make the scene rain?

Caller One: I suppose, in a way. How was your day?

Caller Two: It was okay. I'm just trying to talk to Bob about the game.

Caller One: What game?

Caller Two: I was just calling to talk to you about it. I don't think I can get on with the scene though. There's too many things.

Caller One: Look, the only thing that is definite about your game is that it's about forgiveness, and change, and getting rid of the past.

Caller Two: Oh, I get it. If I put all these words together I could create a new word.

Caller One: Which word do you want to create?

Caller Two: Well, how about: Anomia. It means a kind of synesthesia or like being in a dream garden. If I say Anomia that means it'll be a great scene. It won't be predictable.

Caller One: Then you think it'll be perfect.

Caller Two: I think I've got it. No more games, just keep it secret.

Caller One: I'm glad you understand. Let me put you through to Bob.

* You write down on a piece of paper which word describes the scene you're in. It's then up to you to make it rain, make it change and have a garden.

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He was clamping her head to the table - three pins attached to a hinged frame are driven through the scalp into the skull to hold the patient’s head immobile.
I had promised her a minimal head shave and Jeff started to shave the hair from her forehead. There is no evidence that the complete head shaves we did in the past, which made the patients look like convicts, had any effect on the infection rates, which had been the ostensible reason for doing them. I suspect the real - albeit unconscious - reason was that dehumanizing the patients made it easier for the surgeons to operate.
With the minimal head shave completed we go to the scrub-up sink and wash our hands and then, gloved and masked and gowned, return to the table and start the operation. The first ten minutes or so are spent painting the patient’s head with antiseptic, covering her with sterile towels so that I can only see the area to be operated upon, and setting up the surgical equipment and instruments with the scrub nurse.
‘Knife,’ I say to Irwin, the scrub nurse. ‘I’m starting.’

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