Nothing Ado About Much

ACT V SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.

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Doctor
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

Gentlewoman
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH
Yet here's a spot.
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LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
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LADY MACBETH
The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
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LADY MACBETH
Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!
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LADY MACBETH
Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave.
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LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!

Exit
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That’s why, woman. Take part in murder-lah. See what has happened. Experiencing psychosomatic disturbances now. Tsk tsk.

Welcome to a new BLOODY system, Haematology. What’s new? Not much. It’s still the usual works—a lot of stuff to read up on, new practical skills to learn (for eg, palpating for the lymph nodes in the axilla region aka massaging people’s sweaty armpits)... the only difference for this particular system is that it’s more fluid (pun intended) and it holds the record for the highest failure rate, so extra effort is needed. SIGH.

Well, if you wanna see the coagulation system (the blood-clotting system, for the non-medical students) in action, just ask anyone in the Futsal team to flash her shins or feet at you. I’m singing Purple Toes (to the tune of Prince’s Purple Rain) all over again. The things we go through for the love of the game...

ACT III Scene III

MACBETH
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I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er
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I hope to not drown in this system. Goodbye.

(All literary excerpts from William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.')