Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru

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Witold Gombrowicz in Ferdeydurke After procrastinating for over two years since Yin's death on the writing of this Foreword for his second auto- biographical work, I finally begin using the above quota- tion from Witold Gombrowicz.

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Yin Zigas was a genius; he was a romatic, he was a physician with compassion, he was a scientist with pene- trating curiosity, he was an actor, and he was a loyal friend. He was fundamentally a stylist.

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Many who knew him compared him to Don Quixote; the younger genera- tion compared him to Danny Kaye, not only in his appear- ance, but in his speech, movements, and actions. In his first autobiographical essay, Auscultation of Two Worlds, Yin surprised many of his friends by the flamboyant accounts of his dramatic life.

I was hard pressed to com- ment on this first work, either to Yin himself or to our mutual friends. Everyone, after all, recognized me as his "mentor" in those passages, as they did most of his other thinly disguised characters. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Laughing Death , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Alex rated it really liked it Mar 22, It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my "Green Dwelling" and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not.

Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru

It is also my concern to produce innocent amusement, unrestricted by canon or precedent, for those who require some relaxation from the fatigue generated by so many parasitic forms of life in this less than perfect world. My peers, the medical scientists, who read this will realize that this book is neither a scientific treatise, nor a balance-sheet of all the achievements and failures of medical science, but a presentation of the major implications of the factors that continually determine our medical ethics - including some of the less prizeworthy drawbacks.

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