# Nothing to do with electrotorture...

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Mar 2002*

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### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
*07 Mar 2002, 19:28*

> ... it would have been out of place for me to investigate the
> failure rate of a given therapy; the history of the therapy; the peak
> and decline of the therapy.  Yes, another essay could be written on
> that topic--bring in the frontal lobotomy from oft-mentioned (original
> motion picture) "Planet of the Apes" and you've got the start of an
> sfnal take on psychiatric surgery!

Actually, you don't need to go to Boulle for this, Mantis ... there's
lobotomy in tBotNS.  Remember the zooanthropes? 

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