Tuesday, May 09, 2006

News at Eleven: But it's an ill wind,

and, as [Maggie] Fergusson notes, "Tuberculosis had freed him [George Mackay Brown] from all responsibility for the future, and the disease became his 'ally', real but also psychosomatic, returning to rescue him at critical junctures from developments in his life that he feared or felt unable to face".

from The Guardian: Orcadian rhythms

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