As usual during an extended illness one of my chief weapons in staving off the emptiness and despair has been video games. I believe that much more serious consideration needs to be given to the therapeutic role which they can play for depressives. It is of course highly unlikely that this will happen given the …
Month: August 2010
Musical Notes
In terms of events attended over the past few months which I need to catch up with I find that music massively predominates. My own liking for particular composers, and above all Mahler, increases all the time: I am fortunate then that this year is the 150th Anniversary, and from September of this year to …
Turgenev – A Nest of Gentry
(This was actually intended for a March Miscellany but I never got around to writing one) The next Turgenev I read was A Nest of Gentry (1859 - so it actually predated On the Eve). At the core of this book is the doomed love affair between Lavretsky and Liza - an affair which never …
My Annus Horribilis
This entry attempts to explain why my blogs have fallen silent for the past 6 months and is therefore mainly of personal interest, although I include some cogitation on the barriers to those with MH issues getting involved in campaigning for better services etc., and also a brief summary of what I have been doing …
