The annulation lecture for Arslanian — "Like but for instance did your…"
Like but for instance did your nation know that the whole annular theory behind a type of fusion that can produce waste that's fuel for a process whose waste is fuel for the fusion: the whole theory behind the physics of it comes out of medicine?' […] 'The study of medicine, Ars. Your part of the world takes annular medicine for granted now, but the whole idea of treating cancer by giving the cancer cells themselves cancer was anathematic just a couple decades back.
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The single cleanest statement of the loop anywhere in the book — "waste that's fuel for a process whose waste is fuel for the fusion" — plus its genealogy: annulation began as medicine, curing cancer by giving the cancer cancer. The cure as a recursive dose of the disease, which is also a fair description of every addict's logic in the book.