"As a physician, you of all people should appreciate the dangers of reopening old wounds..."
It's not been a very good week on Planet Gilbert. It's been full of stresses and strains, the details of which I won't burden, or bore you. It's also seen the re-opening of an old emotional wound.
Kirk to Dr McCoy, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
It's not been a very good week on Planet Gilbert. It's been full of stresses and strains, the details of which I won't burden, or bore you. It's also seen the re-opening of an old emotional wound.
Again, I won't go into details, but suffice to say that it set me thinking. As you will have gathered, if you're a regular reader, it doesn't take much to get me thinking. Sometimes it's useful and productive thinking, and other times it's not so productive introspection and over-analysis.
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| A melancholic vista. [Photo: Jack Gilbert] |
It started at the latter ,but I think this time it turned into the former. I was thinking about the emotional wound, or more accurately, emotional wounds in general. Once I'd lifted myself from the melancholy that threatened to seize me, it struck me that often it's the characters with the flaws and the wounds that we find the most interesting.
