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From The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, by Thom Jones

RECOVERY

"Only an archfiend could devise a dilemma where to maybe get well you first had to poison yourself within a whisker of death, and in fact if you didn't die, you wished you had."

From I Want to Live!

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From The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, Thom Jones

FLOP

"Flop on the couch, but that's no good; get up and pace, but you can't handle that, so you flop on the couch again.  Get up and pace."

From I Want to Live!