If there had been no doctors
there would never have been patients,

no skeletons of the diseased
dead to butcher and flay,

for it is through doctors and not through patients that
society began.

—Antonin Artaud

From "Alienation and Black Magic," tans. Clayton Eshleman in Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period by Antonin Artaud (Boston: Exact Change, 1995).