The Kiss

- Alopecia - German New Medicine - Neal Smookler

The Kiss.   Note the flowing hair presented in gold leaf as found in The Kiss, by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.     There is a Dutch saying, “Ik hou zoveel van haar, daarom laat ik het groeien” – which loosely translates “I love her so much, so I grow it.” Hair, since the beginning of time has been associated with Power (Samson.) Beauty (Roseanne Roseannadanna ;’) and Love (Brett Kissel.) In the modern

Lyme, Connecticut.

Lyme, Connecticut

  In the novel Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, there’s a sort of doomsday weapon called ice-nine. Ice-nine is a fictional water crystal that has a higher melting point than ordinary ice – it’s solid at room temperature. One crystal of ice-nine causes other water molecules to become ice-nine and so it can freeze an entire ocean (prionalliance.org). Lyme is conjectured to be like ice-nine: the spiral-shaped bacteria invades, infects and then bores into tissues,