By the pricking of my arm...

Off to get a flu shot – will return later unless I’m woozy. Talk of the flu these days has been depressing: Turkey, Romania, the 1918 virus available for recreation by anyone with a modem — so I leave you with as loverly a flu reference as I can find:

Eliza Doolittle: My aunt died of influenza, so they said. But it’s my belief they done the old woman in. Yes Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza when she come through diphtheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it she was.

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