A tricky Line of Work

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Imagine yourself in a most tricky line of work. Your job is to administer snake poison. The aim of this ministry of an exquisitely subtle stimulant is at the same time to kill and to cure.

You know this. Every time you go to work, you know that this is the kind of business you’re in, and that your employer enjoys to see you in the act. What you don’t know is how the interplay of these two seemingly disparate effects of the same pharmaceutical remedy will fall out in any particular case.

Quite often, it’s like flipping a coin. Or more precisely, it’s like flipping a card to see where on the multifaceted spectrum between mortification and invigoration this particular injection. Cause, obviously, there’s not two options. There never is.

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