- Hawkeye Pierce, going solo, has an accident with a Jeep, and is rescued by a South Korean family. To prevent himself from succumbing to a concussion, Hawkeye begins talking endlessly to the family, who can't understand a word he's saying.
- Hawkeye has a jeep accident trying to avoid hitting some Korean children. He thinks he sustained a contrecoup brain laceration which may result in concussion, so he keeps talking gibberish to keep himself awake. The only thing the Korean children's family understands is Oijongbu; communication is impossible. Hawkeye gets to do his very favorite activity: he pontificates to a captive audience.—LA-Lawyer
- Hawkeye has a jeep accident trying to avoid hitting some Korean children. He finds refuge with the Korean family whose kids he saved with his quick reaction with the jeep. He was returning to his unit the 4077th MASH, which is still a fair way away. Hawkeye does some basic first aid on himself, and he thinks he sustained a brain laceration which may result in concussion, so he keeps talking gibberish to keep himself awake.
The only thing the Korean children's family understands is Oijongbu; communication is impossible. Hawkeye writes a note for his unit to come and get him, and has to rely on the family to deliver the note to the 4077, only understanding the word Oijonbu, which is the name of the village next to their camp.
Hawkeye gets to do his very favorite activity: he pontificates to a captive audience. The Pierces have been in Maine since the 1680s. They came over early. The human skull has 8 bones. One of Hawkeye's skull bones seems to have split into 2. Plus parts of his brain have sloshed over to the other side, causing purple coloration on that side of his face. Afternoon turns to evening to dusk as Hawkeye narrates tales from his childhood to his time in the army. He thinks about what makes us alive and how human thumbs work.. Hawkeye got sick after drinking beer in college and barfed all over a football player and got beaten up. He says he loves eating marinated herring with sour cream and onions. He once dissected a whitefish in college.
He was an only kid. He is served moonshine by the house, which he likens to battery acid. He blows up a surgical glove into a balloon for the kids to play with. Samuel sacks was the head of his medical college, and the smartest doctor he knew. Once a student asked him what he would do if a patient died just after meeting him. Sacks says he would turn the patient around so that it looked like he was just coming in.
Hawkeye briefly thinks that nobody is coming for him anymore. This is it. As dusk falls, the family prepares for dinner. He talks about the Boston theatre, both the hits and the turkeys. he enacts the scenes from a drama play as well. The food is very hot and spicy. Hawkeye says even after 1000s of surgeries, he does not know what makes a human being live. What keeps the heart beating, why the cells reproduce. Human body has a remarkable capacity to take abuse and still heal itself. Of all the bones in the body, 1/4th are in the hands. The thumbs (that move in a different direction to the fingers) that separate humans from the other animals. Because of the opposite movement of the thumb, humans can grab things.
Finally the 4077 jeep comes at night and takes Hawkeye away. He returns another day with gifts for the whole family. A vegetable cutter for the mother, tobacco for the father, comics and chocolate for the kids and his personal info for the pregnant lady with an offer to visit 4077 for the delivery.
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