Nostalgia was the invention of Johannes Hofer, a military doctor. Hofer
treated Swiss soldiers who, after long periods in foreign lands,
suffered from buy anabolics online a set of common symptoms: headaches, sleeplessness,
heaviness of heart, hearing voices and seeing ghosts. The exiled
soldiers took on a gloomy, almost phantasmagorical aspect - they walked
around as if absent from the world and in their imaginations confused
the past and the present.
There is no such thing as a nostalgic or "saudadic" child, but there are
melancholy ones. When I was about five years old someone told me you
could dig a tunnel all the way to China. We were living in Central
America and I thought I could save my family the expense of the plane
fare by digging my way home. If someone had got as far as China, I could
surely get to Mexico, which was much closer. I asked my father to tell
me the exact direction of our house there and he drew me a map. I
started digging a tunnel in a corner of the garden.
But the soldiers eventually became immune to such palliatives. After
many experiments, Hofer concluded that nothing produced better results
than sending them back home.
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