+++On Carbuncles+++

MARX: "You have too low an opinion of the English doctors if you think that they cannot diagnose carbuncles, particularly here in England--the land of carbuncles, which is actually a proletarian illness. It is only in the last few years that I have been persecuted by the thing. Before that, it was entirely unknown to me."
	DOCTOR-BIOGRAPHER:
		MARX: "Dear Engels: It was good you did not come on Saturday. My story--now fourteen days old--had reached the crisis point. I could talk a little, and it hurt even to laugh on account of the big abscess between nose and mouth, which this morning has been reduced at least to resonable proportions." -- Laura Kipnis, Marx: The Video ... A Politics of Revolting Bodies. The script for the video is in Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.