The EU's ban on neonicotinoids has removed a band-aid from a suppurating and seemingly incurable wound - the reliance of agriculture on chemicals that harm the environment.
And what sensitive gentleman can read the closing pages of "The Beast in the Jungle" and ever forget the anguish of John Marcher, to whom nothing whatever had happened, who through life had love forgone, quit of scars and tears but bearing the deep, incurable wound of emptiness?
But sympathy and compliments both annoy her, perhaps because they rub salt into the incurable and necessary wound of her discontent.
Tokyo expressed "apologies and remorse" to the women, who "underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds".
The government of Japan, it continued, would like to "extend its sincere apologies and remorse to all those who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women".
The ancient Greeks and Romans greatly feared its venom, with authors such as Aelian (175 235 AD) stating that stingray wounds were incurable.
As a result, the apology said, "a great number of comfort women … suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds".
"Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as 'comfort women,'" he said.
Wounded, wounded, wounded!
Dr. Duffin, a physician, describes supplicants who walk away from most of history's incurable diseases, from the suppurating wounds and raging tuberculosis of the preantibiotic era to today's diagnoses of metastatic cancer.
