Posted by David Mc (195.171.225.105) on August 31, 1999 at 09:34:33:
In Reply to: Literary headaches posted by William Bray on August 31, 1999 at 06:50:05:
Thanks, William. Just phoned my local library and they can get hold of a copy of 'The Color Of Light' for me, I look forward to reading it.
I've done a cursory search through what literature I have on hand and there are absolutely hundreds of literary headaches of various species. When I can get into the university library next week I'm going to go to town on this subject! It's mentioned by ancient Greek playwrights through Shakespeare on through Victorian novels and up to the present day.
If anyone out there can give me more literary headaches, migraines, megrims etc they would be more than welcome.
Here's a chunk from Jack London's 'Iron Heel',(gotta be a man-size headache if one of his characters gets one!)
"I went back to my horse blankets and waited an hour for Garthwaite. My headache had not gone away. On the contrary, it was increasing. It was by an effort of will only that I was able to open my eyes and look at objects. And with the opening of my eyes and the looking came intolerable torment. Also, a great pulse was beating in my brain. Weak and reeling, I went out through the broken window and down the street, seeking to escape, instinctively and gropingly, from the awful shambles. And thereafter I lived nightmare. My memory of what happened in the succeeding hours is the memory one would have of nightmare. Many events are focused sharply on my brain, but between these indelible pictures I retain are intervals of unconsciousness. What occurred in those intervals I know not, and never shall know."
Okay, back to my horse blanket...
David Mc