Caruso's little
helper
Aspirin® has over the last 100 years not only written
many chapters of medical history - it also turns up in many
chapters of world literature, in poetry and prose, in diaries
and letters, thrillers and satires. We have therefore devoted
a retrospective chapter chapter to literary Aspirin®.
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| Enrico Caruso |
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The pains in my head an brain have
become an illness which is subject to any change in the weather.
With rain and a sudden fall in temperature, I get this severe
pressure in my brain and this pain which torments me dreadfully.
I can only treat it with German Aspirin®.
Enrico Caruso, from a letter to his agent
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| Maria Gräfin von Maltzan |
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Ricinus - Aspirin® - or a child.
My elder siblings claimed that he advised father: "His Excellency
must try again." I am the offspring of this endeavour.
From: Maria Gräfin von Maltzan, Beat the Drum and Fear
Not
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| Raymond Chandler |
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I poured her a shot which would
have lifted me to ceiling. Greedily, she grabbed it and gulped
the bourbon down like an Aspirin®.
From: Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
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| Frederick Forsyth |
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Colonel Rolland ... also ordered
fried eggs, rolls and more coffee - this time a large cup of
white coffee - and Aspirin® tablets for his headache.
From: Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
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| Thomas Mann |
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For supper, at K.'s bed, I drank
punch, which warmed my feet, and took Aspirin®. Recovery.
Thomas Mann, diary entry of November 25, 1918
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| Erich Fromm |
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Every concept is connected with another
through a productive act of thinking (or feeling) which begins
when the right word is sought. A simple example: If I associate
the word "pain" or "Aspirin®" whith the word "headache",
then I am moving in logical, conventional paths.
From: Erich Fromm, Having or Being
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