The first chapter of Gabriel García Márquez’s feverish novel Of Love and Other Demons closes with a prescient word of wisdom. After a physician examines a nobleman’s daughter feared to have contracted rabies, he prescribes a regimen not of elixirs, but of flowers, birds, and views to the setting sun. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot,” the doctor advises.
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