tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post4493643205717247652..comments2024-03-24T07:19:28.136+00:00Comments on Lake Cocytus: MusicThe Shrinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10009039342346247138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-42160758756134217702010-10-17T06:53:28.251+01:002010-10-17T06:53:28.251+01:00'The curse the patient lives with is also a gi...'The curse the patient lives with is also a gift from Apollo that the healer, the silent bearer of others woes, is denied. '<br /><br />More likely it's just flow and I'm pretty sure you soar through some days effortlessly absorbed in being a brilliant doctor too. <br /><br />Artist Paula Rego was on the World Service the other day <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b40x3" rel="nofollow">have a listen to here if you didn't catch interview</a> and she emphatically rejects any notion that her manic depression has been responsible for her artistic output and does so in a way that's refreshingly non pc and mirrors my take on the subject.<br /><br />Buy yourself an instrument and just have another go, relieves stress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-60309158253927432222010-10-16T04:38:11.733+01:002010-10-16T04:38:11.733+01:00I've a friend whose poetry is exquisite when s...I've a friend whose poetry is exquisite when she's manic, average at other times (some of it is framed in my house). She'd rather be a rubbish poet if she had the choice. <br /><br />(Incidentally, Shrink, though the sentiments in this post are all you, the language reads differently to your normal style.)Milk and Two Sugarshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17960085813041665939noreply@blogger.com