"It is of no consolation to me that medical students are mostly stunted, and that my nostrils are therefore located a good eighteen inches (on average) above the top of their head, because as everybody knows hot air rises, and one can almost hearthe teeming bacteria jumping gleefullyinto mid-airout of the cheap white fabric (50% cotton, 50% polyester, with depressinglylow thread count, I notice) and ascend ecstatically on miniature gusts and thermals."