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The companion-ways were no sooner cast off than she was busy with the telephone. ‘Julia. This is Celia - Celia Ryder. It’s lovely to find you on board. What have you been up to? Come and have a cocktail this evening and tell me all about it.’ ‘Julia who?’

‘Mottram. I haven’t seen her for years.’

Nor had I; not, in fact, since my wedding day, not to speak to for any time, since the private view of my exhibition where the four canvases of Marchmain House, lent by Brideshead, had hung together attracting much attention. Those pictures were my last contact with the Flytes; our lives, so close for a year or two, had drawn apart. Sebastian, I knew, was still abroad; Rex and Julia, I sometimes heard said, were unhappy together.

Rex was not prospering quite as well as had been predicted; he remained on the fringe of the Government, prominent but vaguely suspect. He lived among the very rich, and in his speeches seemed to incline to revolutionary policies, flirting, with Communists and Fascists. I heard the Mottrams’ names in conversation; I saw their faces now and again peeping from the Tatler, as I turned the pages impatiently waiting for someone to come, but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets of personal relationship

I have been assured that the speakers in this series need not address themselves to matters medical, and I’ve decided to half-believe that assurance. Only half, because among our premedical undergraduates over at the university, the distinction between the artistic interest of a literary text and its symptomological interest is by no means always clear.

So I learned when I joined the Hopkins faculty in 1973 and gave an undergraduate lecture course in modernist and postmodernist short fiction. Our analysis of Franz Kafka’s beautiful story “A Hunger Artist,” for example, turned into a knowledgeable discussion — knowledgeable on the students’ part — of anorexia nervosa, which clearly appealed to the science majors as much as did the theme of the problematical position of saints and artists in a post-traditional culture: what I take to have been the author’s principal concern. And among their liveliest interests in Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice was the question whether, given the incubation period of the cholera virus, Mann’s hero could really have contracted the disease from eating those overripe strawberries in the piazza, as Visconti’s film version of the story seems to imply.

I confess that both as a teacher and as a writer of fiction I was as interested in these clinical footnotes to literature as the premedical people were. More than once — in fact, twice — I have called upon friends and relatives at the Hopkins Medical Institutions to help me find metaphorically appropriate diseases to inflict upon my characters.

At this critical moment, Scheherazade volunteers herself. She has a stratagem, she says, which she won’t disclose to her father, to end the carnage. There is just a hint that if it fails she is prepared, in Burton’s footnoted phrase, “to ‘Judith’ the King.” (”These learned and clever young ladies,” Burton’s straightfaced note adds, “are very dangerous in the East.”) The vizier attempts to dissuade his daughter by telling her a story: the cautionary Tale of the Bull and the Ass, the only “second level” tale in the Nights besides the ones which Scheherazade will tell to the king. It is clear to us that the young woman comes by her particular stratagem honestly — she’s her father’s daughter — but here as elsewhere the nameless authors of the Nights leave the connection implicit, the foreshadowing unremarked.

The vizier’s story doesn’t work (”I shall never desist, O my father, nor shall this tale change my purpose”): an ill omen in itself, one would think, but the fact goes unnoticed. And to her plea for self-sacrifice, Scheherazade now adds a canny threat: If her father says no, she’ll go straight to Shahryar and report that she wants to go to bed with him, but his vizier won’t allow it.

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The process of dying imbues fewer and fewer choices available to us. Even in dying, however, we still have choices concerning how we handle what is happening to us. The following account deals with the dying of Jim Molock, a student and close friend of mine.
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To this day, he has chosen to die with dignity, and although his body is getting weaker and weaker, his spirit is still very much alive. He retains his mental sharpness, his ability to say a lot in very few words and his sense of humor. He has allowed himself to grief over his losses, as he puts it, “I sure like to hang around to enjoy all those people that love me.” Realizing that this is impossible, Jim is saying goodbye to all those who are close to him. Throughout his suffering, Jim’s mother has been truly great. When she told me how remarkle Jim has been in complaining so rarely despite his constant pain. I reminded her that I never heard her complain during her month of caring for him. I have been continually amazed by her strength and courage. And I have admired her willingness to honor Jim’s wishes and accept his beliefs, even though at times, they have differed from her own… Jim has been showing me that his style of dying would be no different from his style of living. By his example and by his words, Jim has taught me how to evaluate my own life.

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