...the American imagination demands the real thing, and, to attain it,
must fabricate the absolute fake;
(Umberto Eco. Travels in Hyperreality)

Obviously advertising works.
(Leslie Chester, business director for the confectionery division of
Nestle Canada. Globe and Mail, November 9, 1993)

Only seldom was a whimper heard from one of the four children, all of
whom, from the six-month-old infant to the six-year-old Amanda, were
fed from Lovise's breast.
(Gunter Grass. The Flounder)

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd
all been weaned too soon.
(Gunter Grass. The Flounder)

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC