"It is time to experiment, time to leave the well-ordered but stuffy operating theater, time to restore a vulgar vitality to brain surgery and unleash the energy now trapped in the subculture. There is nothing to lose. Society has already told us that brain surgery is dead. Let's build a funeral pyre out of the desiccated conventions piled around us and watch the ancient, spangle-feathered, unkillable phoenix rise from the ashes!" --G Sullivan on brain surgery (see below).

is this flarfy? who cares. it's a terrific, serious-sounding call to arms about an... issue... great touch of tone, great meaning out of meaninglessness.