8253 Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache. Hungarian Proverb 8254 Although today he prunes my twigs with pain, Yet doth his blood nourish and warm my root: Tomorrow I shall put forth buds again And clothe myself with fruit. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) 8255 For philosophers, pain is a problem of metaphysics; for stoics, it is an exercise; for mystics, it is an ecstasy; for the religious, a travail meekly to be borne; for clinicians a symptom to be understood and an ill to be