:59:07
Well, he's not
out of danger.
:59:10
But I think we can safely say
he's gonna make it.
:59:13
Now I'd be pretty
surprised if he didn't.
:59:16
However, there is evidence
of injury to the frontal lobe.
:59:19
And I have reason to fear
that this injury may be permanent.
:59:22
Brain damage?
:59:24
You mean he's gonna
be a vegetable?
:59:26
A vegetable?
:59:30
No, I wouldn't say that.
:59:32
We won't know the extent
of the injury for some days.
:59:35
But there is
a genuine possibility
:59:38
of severe and lasting
behavioral defects.
:59:41
I wouldn't classify it in
the "vegetable" category, however.
:59:47
Thumbs that not once
in a lifetime
:59:49
had been raised in anger,
:59:51
that had often known bliss
but never violence,
:59:54
that were wound 'round
with artistic skill and athletic glory
:59:58
now had been reduced
to the status of weapons.
1:00:01
A sorrowful Sissy
had her thumbs transport her
1:00:04
to the one person she knew
who might disarm her...
1:00:07
or should we say,
"disthumb" her.
1:00:16
I'm afraid
I can't help you.
1:00:17
- Oh Doctor!
- Please, child.
1:00:20
Don't be dismayed.
1:00:22
We all have our problems
these days.
1:00:24
But as the painter
Van Gogh said,
1:00:26
"Mysteries remain, sorrow
or melancholy remains,
1:00:30
but the everlasting
negative is balanced
1:00:32
by the positive work which
thus is achieved after all."
1:00:35
I don't suppose that means
very much to you.
1:00:38
I have retired... a victim
of a malpractice suit.
1:00:42
- Oh...
- My last operation
1:00:44
was a simple reworking
of a boy's nose.
1:00:46
I was a bit
overenthusiastic,
1:00:48
succumbing to my supressed
artistic drives,
1:00:51
I sculpted,
in living flesh,
1:00:53
on the face
of little Bernie Schwartz
1:00:56
the world's first
cubistic nose.