Ippei Shigeyama: Boy
Quotes
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Boy : Doctor, let me die...
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Boy : [the doctor is with the boy into the bed] Do you know? ,my confidence in you is very small. You were only shaken out from somewhere. You don't come on your own feet. Instead of helping, you give me less room on my deathbed. The best thing would be if I scratch your eyes out.
Doctor : Right,it's a disgrace. But now I'm a doctor. What am I supposed to do? Believe me, things are not easy for me either.
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Boy : I came into the world with a beautiful wound; that was all I was furnished with
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Doctor : [Leaving the bed] Young friend, your mistake is that you have no perspective. I've already been in all the sick rooms, far and wide, and I tell you your wound is not so bad. Made in a tight corner with two blows from an axe. Many people offer their side and hardly hear the axe in the forest, to say nothing of the fact that it's coming closer to them.
Boy : Is that really so, or are you deceiving me in my fever?
Doctor : It is truly so. Take the word of honour of a medical doctor.
