Antonia Hildebrand
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TO BREATHE
TO BREATHE London 1822 “So”, Doctor Benson said, “do you see these angels in the trees all the time or only sometimes?” The old man he spoke to was not an inmate of Benson’s asylum. Benson was compiling a case history on him, though, for the archive of his mental hospital. Through their mutual friend, Mr Robinson, Benson had offered the impoverished old man a guinea to be interviewed. He regarded the old man as a most interesting case. The old man looked at Benson kindly. It was almost a look of pity and the thought came to Benson that the poor fellow actually felt sorry for him. An intolerable thought or at the very least a discomfiting one.
By Antonia Hildebrand5 years ago in Humans
