David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Methotrexate pumped into his skull,
or, more accurately, was watching a
group of mechanics gathered
solemnly around the stalled machine.
In the next a baby was sitting up
watching a television set on which a
panel show was in progress...Among
the parents and children, flung
together in a hell of prolonged
farewell, wandered forever the
ministering vampires from
Laboratory, sucking samples from
bones and veins to see how went with
each the enemy that had marked them
all. And the doctors in their butchers’
coats, who severed the limbs and
gouged the brains and knifed the