Memento Mori
In med school I learned that cancer arrives in the body unannounced, a dark stranger who takes up residence, turning it's new home against itself. This is the evil of cancer, that is starts as an invader, but soon becomes one with the invaded, forcing you to destroy it, but only at the risk of destroying yourself.
It is science's demon possession. My treatment, science has attempted exorcism. Mulder, I hope that in these terms you might know it and know me, and accept this stranger that so many recognized but cannot ever completely cast out.
And if the darkness should have swallowed me as you read this, you must never think there was the possibility of some secret intervention, something you might have done. And though we've traveled far together, this last distance must necessarily be traveled alone.
It is science's demon possession. My treatment, science has attempted exorcism. Mulder, I hope that in these terms you might know it and know me, and accept this stranger that so many recognized but cannot ever completely cast out.
And if the darkness should have swallowed me as you read this, you must never think there was the possibility of some secret intervention, something you might have done. And though we've traveled far together, this last distance must necessarily be traveled alone.
