I started seeing another doctor in December, determined that 2021 would be the year I finally get a handle on my chronic pain. A half-dozen vials of my deep burgundy blood were sent to the lab and a week later…

In Brave New World, people do not read books. Is it because they have been forbidden?; or simply b/c books can't compete with the all-sense-gratifying ("sensorious"?) entertainment of that world? Movies there are posh events held in pristine, surround-vision theaters…