"The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic."

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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

— Maxine Hong Kingston