This year has seen a surfeit of old people whose hold on life has slipped. Hoyle is an ornery character but one who nevertheless has the spirit of nuannaarpoq, partly by turning a health problem to good use: easily out of breath when he walks, he just walks more...
Hoyle was the British Consul in Rhodes during the two years following the war, and became a close friend of Lawrence Durrell. He is eccentric, ornery, particular, and funny, possibly unintentionally. He also had a heart problem which obliged him to stop and rest...
Keat’s evocation of perfect sleep is particularly moving considering he was soon robbed of health and ‘quiet breathing’ by the assault of tuberculosis. Â He had also nursed his mother and younger brother through it, losing both of them to its...
According to his biographer John Drury, the English poet George Herbert ‘thought that it was better being a child than an adult’, perhaps confirmed by the simple closing line to his poem ‘Holy Baptism (II)’, comprising three diamond-shaped...
We know that insomnia can drive you insane and a good sleep can make you feel sane (or saner), but here is something to wish for, that you may go to bed sane and arise sane, with nothing but uninterrupted sleep to connect the two ends of your mental health. What has...
What is your idea, experience or dream of a timeless afternoon? I experienced timeless afternoons when I woke up after an operation in a strange hospital bed, alone in a strange hospital room, and my mind was swinging between looking out of the window and falling back...
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