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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being human has its side effects (read the small print)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Where are the great myths of our age –<br>hiding truth within their all too human stories? <br>In their absence, scientific research<br>has wondrous tales yet to tell…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Jon, the renowned professor of psychology<br>and not averse to self-examination and experiment, <br>took Paxil – Prozac’s cousin – for eight<br>adventurous weeks.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In week five – ‘the world changed’…<br>his heavy work load, his insecurities<br>as an untenured professor, <br>vanished like magic; changes which he’d wished<br>to make for himself for years, <br>happened overnight – he loosened up, <br>he lightened up, he accepted his mistakes<br>and did not dwell on them –<br>who would not want to be a Prof like he? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But… a side effect: names began to elude him –<br>‘Hi! ’ and ‘Hi there! ’ were all his students got<br>out on campus, in the morning classroom …<br>and along with that, the subterfuges –<br>how can you ask a student whom you’ve known for years<br>to give their opinion… er, point, smile, <br>hope they’re watching.. yes, you…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and facts too started to recede –<br>just out of reach on the top shelf of<br>the mind’s rich library, memory’s repository…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Greek tragedy would have a word, <br>a scene, a moral, for it: <br>the Fates had claimed their own…<br>Nemesis had struck; Icarus’ wings had melted, <br>Prometheus’ insult to the gods avenged…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or in our scientific terms, a brain on Paxil, Prozac, <br>has more serotonin in certain synapses, <br>so the neurons fire more often…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The celebrated young Professor<br>stopped taking the pills; five weeks later, <br>the memory returned; as did the worries<br>(security of tenure threatened even more<br>by Professors who can’t even remember<br>what they profess to profess…) .</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, <br>bestowed one gift alone on Prof: <br>he remembered just how he had been those weeks; <br>as certain Greeks, it’s said, <br>remembered like a dream<br>the Golden Age which they never<br>might recapture, but only tell of<br>in myths and suchlike tales<br>of truth and goodness; beauty too..</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>