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Flat lights on the ceiling.

Publication: National Review
Publication Date: 25-JUN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Flat lights on the ceiling.(the bent pin)(transposing at the hospital)

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THEY say that any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." I had my own adventures in transposing last week. When you go into the hospital at 71 it is only natural that a song extolling youth that came out when you were 18 should run through your head. Lying...

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...on my back in the CT Scan room, staring up at the hospital's big modern panels of recessed lighting, I discovered that you can sing "flat lights on the ceiling" to "Three Coins in the Fountain" without missing a beat.

I was on the cardiology floor, in for three days and four nights for the socalled "battery of tests." I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, ventricle enlargement, and congestive heart trouble. I'm taking meds to control arrhythmia and clot formation, and a diuretic for fluid retention that...

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