In chapter 23, who tells us about himself, "i am a doctor and have been resident surgeon to a hospital"?

Why does lewis thomas express concern about what we would say to beings from another planet

What does the machinery in the hospital represent to the army major in the story? support your answer with textual evidence.

You seal resign myself to you also i guess what you mean, i behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, i believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, we must have a turn together, i undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, dash me with amorous wet, i can repay you. in this excerpt from "song of myself," which literary device does whitman use to address the sea? alliteration allusion apostrophe onomatopoeia