Oran Eile air an Aobhar Cheudna/Another Song on the Same Theme
The 20C historian Henri Guillemin identified what was up with Max in terms of the collapses, increasing gauntness, generally losing the plot from weakness, & c. The word he used is the one that 18-19C writers use, so I'm suspecting contemporary/near-contemporary sources (I need to check).
But it makes sense in terms of the way he looks in that last drawing, made the day before his death, the deterioration on appearance over the last few months.
But f€ck it, I thought.
Not another one…
Not another one…
Phthisis.
I've seen that word too often on death certificates of my own family (McLeans and Johnstons), and on Cullen cases.
I think of his contemporary, the Gairloch schoolmaster William Ross, composing Cuckoo of the Tree and Another Song on the Same Theme.
I think of Aubrey, another beautiful, immaculately-tailored wraith of a boy…
Consumption.
F€ck it…
But it makes sense in terms of the way he looks in that last drawing, made the day before his death, the deterioration on appearance over the last few months.
But f€ck it, I thought.
Not another one…
Not another one…
Phthisis.
I've seen that word too often on death certificates of my own family (McLeans and Johnstons), and on Cullen cases.
I think of his contemporary, the Gairloch schoolmaster William Ross, composing Cuckoo of the Tree and Another Song on the Same Theme.
I think of Aubrey, another beautiful, immaculately-tailored wraith of a boy…
Consumption.
F€ck it…