Chapter 1
I am a sick man… . I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe
my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease,
and do not know for certain what ails me. I don\'t consult a doctor
for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors.
Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine,
anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious).
No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite