On: The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulatio...

[noisy_boy]

> During which time my hair was cut, but only the parts that might get in the way of the procedure, giving me that classically handsome friar tuck look

Of the many weird things I wonder about, this has been on the list for a while. Why was that totally weird haircut done? To make clergy even more irresistible than they already were? Some kind of trying to both having and eating your cake by having hair while not having hair?

[mbg721 → noisy_boy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure

It's apparently meant to evoke a crown representing the victory to be gained in the afterlife through humility on earth, in imitation of St. Peter.

[jaggirs → noisy_boy]

Your surgeon is not your hairdresser. He cut away what he needed to cut away, if you want to cut away more later you can do it yourself.

[s4vo → jaggirs]

The question was about the specific hairstyle ('friar tuck'-like) being done at all and not why the surgeon did it in this story.