This morning at seven oclock they hitched me up to the machine, turned on the VCR and played a tape of Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious". Two hours later they had a pale straw-colored pint of platelets, and I had bruises on the insides of both elbows, a good feeling in my soul, and a certificate redeemable anywhere in the universe for one pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Any flavor I wanted: a pint of my lifes blood for a pint of Double Chocolate Fudge Swirl. This is a good deal.
May 30, 1996
"Quid Pro Quo" This for that, i.e., a favor for a favor. The opposite of tit for tat, an injury for an injury.
"Notorious" (1946) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Cary Grant, Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman.
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