From the bookshelves 60, 61

A painstakingly made book . . . then a movie. I read this at a time I was doing a clinical-internship in a nursing home as part of an occupational therapy assistant course. This relates obliquely to the story of the man in Brussels who recently reported that he was conscious for the past twenty odd years; not in a coma.

     I mentioned in a previous post I occasionally miss John Ciardi, or rather his pieces about words on All Things Considered (or was it Morning Edition?). I re-read an excerpt from Invisible by Paul Auster in GRANTA 106 which makes reference to Bertran de Born, a poet condemned to carry his own severed head like a lantern for causing a bitter rift between a prince and his father.  He appears at the end of Canto 28 of Inferno.