It is in those circumstances that you may wish to wield a pen, to reflect upon and write the story of your experiences.

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If doctors wield the pen, why do they do it so differently from one place to another?

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Someone or something is using me to untangle the tangled plot over whose direction I have as little influence as the pen has over the poets who wield it, or man over the gods who manipulate him, or the knife over the murderer.

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