... what happened to the needles that were like brooches, that didn't hurt at all when they touched you... the needles that drew blood that were used by those who were once real nurses, who used the lightest needles that weren't even needles to draw blood.. they weren't actually needles, they were brooches.. needles were never required for the purpose of taking blood, or, for that matter, for putting a drug into your system.. either taking out blood or putting in a drug into or from your bloodstream.. they were done with brooches.. not with needles.. WHY did they invent needles.. WHY... Dostoevksy said their once was a Cleopatra who was very, very different, an entirely different woman than the beautiful, nudity-prone Cleopatra written of by William Shakespeare in "Antony and Cleopatra".. The other woman, the other woman of the name, Cleopatra, was Dostoevsky's Cleopatra of his book,"Notes from Underground", and in teh book of that name, the author writes taht this Cleopatra, Dostoevsky's Cleopatra, would stick needles into the breasts of women who had no right to say no.. just like the nurses of today who just like Dostoevsky said of his own day... after all, needles are still being stuck into people...

... a dissertation on Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"....