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The Whistlers' Room Stories and Essays

Richard Selzer

Richard Selzer is one of America’s most accomplished stylists, a physician turned writer in the grand tradition that stretches from Chekhov to William Carols Williams to Oliver Sachs. As Iliana Semmler notes in her introduction, "over fifteen years ago [he] substituted the pen for the scalpel, the d...

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It was mentioned as a book about deformed German soldiers receiving medical treatment in a hospital before returning to war, and it was said that the soldiers were nicknamed whistlers because of their injuries.

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we published a book called The Whistler's Room about so-called uh deformed German soldiers and she puts that in quotes as if to say you know right it's not the proper nomenclature

— Episode: Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic)

Episode: Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic)

It was mentioned as a book about deformed German soldiers receiving medical treatment in a hospital before returning to war, and it was said that the soldiers were nicknamed whistlers because of their injuries.

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we published a book called The Whistler's Room about so-called uh deformed German soldiers and she puts that in quotes as if to say you know right it's not the proper nomenclature

the men were called whistlers because due to the injury they could not breathe through their mouths or noses instead had holes cut in their throats oh my gosh which created a whistling noise

Episode: Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic)

It was mentioned as a book about injured German soldiers during WWI, particularly those who had to breathe through holes in their throats, which made a whistling sound.

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we published a book called the Whistler's Room about so-called uh deformed German soldiers and she puts that in quotes as if to say you know right it's not the proper nomenclature

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