A doctｏｒonce told me about one of his outpatients who suffered from the disease of eloquence:

  "Please sit down," the doctｏｒtold him.

  "Why should I?" the patient asked. "Are you going to deprive me of my right not to sit down?"

  The doctｏｒcould say nothing but offered him a glass of water. "Have some water then.”

  The patient retorted, “This is lop-sided talk, so it is absurd. Not all water is drinkable. If you put same potassium cyanide in it, it will be undrinkable. "

  The doctｏｒsaid, "1 didn\'t put any poison in it. Please rest assured."

  "Who said you put poison in it? Do you mean to say that 1 am lodging a false accusation against you? Has it been written cat the indictment of the procuratｏｒthat you have put poison in the water? I didn\'t say you had put poison in it, but you claimed that I said you had put poison in it. So you have indeed put in move poisonous poison against met"

  The doctｏｒcould not but heave a sigh ａｎｄ　switched to another topic, “It\'s fine today.”

  The patient replied, "Nonsense! The fact that it is fine here doesn\'t mean that it is fine everywhere else in the world. At the North Pole, fｏｒexample, it must be freezing, with strong winds, long nights ａｎｄ　icebergs colliding with one another. . . "

  The doctｏｒcouldn\'t help but retorted, "Ibis is not the North Pole."

  The patient argued, “You can\'t deny the existence of the North Pole. If you do, you\'ll be distorting facts with ulteriｏｒmotives."

  Finally the doctｏｒbegged him, "Please go away."

  The patient again answered back. "You have no right to ｏｒｃｅｒme to leave. Yours is a hospital, not a public security office. So you can\'t arrest me, nｏｒshoot me to death. "

  An investigation revealed the fact that this patient had joined the so-called “Lung Xiao” (An organization doing the Cultural Revolution that wrote the majｏｒarticles which voiced the opinions of the Gang of Four. Here "Xiao" also implies "Loyalty to the Gang of Four.") writing group. What he was suffering from may have been the after-effects of that period.