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Now is the hour - now is my moment - now is my time to write it. After all, we have all had a few days to reflect on England's performance in the World Cup and although I am not qualified to write about football, I have reflected on other aspects of the tournament.
These reflections began about two weeks into the World Cup. While on holiday in Cyprus, I took the opportunity to recite a favourite piece from Shakespeare. Our guide had foolishly asked me to speak from the stage of the amphitheatre in Kourion in order to demonstrate the acoustics. I was delighted to oblige and there I am on the stage below quoting some favourite lines from Shakespeare.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts...
Even while speaking these words, I was reflecting that for footballers like Ronaldo and Messi, the world really is their stage. The World Cup competition attracts competitors and guests from many lands. It is one of the few occasions that "ordinary people" have to see their heroes in the flesh and in an arena in which these heroes can demonstrate their powers in front of a vast global audience.
What struck me, even at the time, is that the short paragraph above could easily have been written about medieval and post-medieval jousting tournaments. The paragraph could read: Tudor jousting attracted competitors, spectators and foreign guests from a variety of lands. Ordinary people were given the opportunity to watch their king topple his adversary from his steed and, majestically, beat his adversary with his sword or axe. Thus were the king and courtiers displayed as noble and superior. And woe betide the oaf who dared to topple his king and beat him with his own flanged mace. His role was to give the king a well fought match. He had also to ensure that the king won in the end.
Luckily, our modern football hero does not have this delicate problem to deal with. No team - at least no team I have ever heard of - has to lose on purpose. Having said that, many other aspects of the medieval ideal of masculinity transmit perfectly into the modern world of football. Take managers, for instance. It is their job to look for the opponent's Achilles heel. It might be the defence or even a shaky goalkeeper. The manager will identify their best player and what his best weapon is. Is it the boot or the head? The manager will decide how to exploit weaknesses and so on. How similar it must have been for the medieval jouster! I am sure that he, too, looked for weaknesses in the defence of his opponents and how he held his shield, for example. Was his lance steady and what was his best weapon - his sword, his mace or his lance? Better prepare for all possibilities and find a winning edge!
Both jouster and footballer are icons of manhood. Although they represent the ideal of masculinity of their respective times, I am of the opinion that there is little difference between the man of steel flying on horseback down the tiltyard in 1530 and Harry Maguire hurling himself though the air to head the ball into the back of Sweden's net in 2018. And all of this in front of adoring supporters.
And of course, it is the relationship between flawed hero and hero-worshipper that often inspires the writer and the filmmaker. Think of Anakin Skywalker, Jay Gatsby, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, Jean Valjean and Sir Lancelot. But think also of the hero's downfall. Is it their tragic flaws that make them so appealing to readers and cinema-goers? Don't we really love it when Messi misses a penalty? And didn't we love George Best when he was down and out? Perhaps we can we learn from the flaws of the hero and, by doing so, make better choices in our own lives. And maybe that was what Greek and Roman theatre was all about and why the people crowded into theatres like Kourion above.
Cecil Roberts (1892-1976) was an English novelist, poet and dramatist. His books include: A Terrace in the Sun and the Pilgrim Cottage trilogy. When I was around 16, I read A Terrace in the Sun. This novel introduced me to the idea of the past returning to haunt or delight us in the present. I have never forgotten it. In fact, I can say that most of my novels, to a greater or lesser extent, have been influenced by this theme.
For many years, I would have been ashamed to admit that Cecil Roberts had such an influence on me. Why? Because Roberts was a dreadful snob and what he wrote was, in a sense, a commentary on a society which was on the brink of great change. It was the 1940s and 1950s he wrote about - a very different society from that in which we live today. Here is an extract from the fifth book in his autobiography – The Pleasant Years (1974).
I was back in New York at the end of April. I dined with Mrs Cartwright at her Fifth Avenue apartment. One of the guests was Mrs Dorothy Caruso, her cousin. She was very surprised when I recalled that in 1924 she had given me and my travelling companion, Armand de la Rochefoucauld, her box at the Metropolitan Opera House, and we had taken with us the two Mdivani brothers, Prince Serge and Prince Alexis, then in poor lodgings in New York. She had married Caruso a few years before his death. They had one child, Gloria, whom he adored. I said I remembered that she had told me Caruso would not allow any birds to be shot on his Italian estate near Florence, unlike other Italians. "What an incredible memory you have!" she exclaimed, "He loathed 'other singers' being shot."
In a sense, Roberts was simply writing about what interested readers of his day. Apart from style, is there really a difference between his writing and the reports on celebrities we read today? Have a look at the following report from a UK newspaper concerning a celebrity party. The article also drops names - but the style is very different.
While Lauren Goodger still may have looked all glammed up, she was feeling souped up and sassy as she flipped the bird to fans on her way out - seemingly proud as punch of her nude manicure and wanting to show it off for all to see. Pulling an emotive grimace, the former-TOWIE beauty also toted the exclusive gift bag, no doubt filled to the brim with a bunch of luxurious goodies. Sarah Harding clutched a massive gift bag as the Girls Aloud star held onto a pal's friend on the way out. While Jess Shears and Dom Lever were on their very own Love Island as the brunette beauty jumped a ride on her boyfriend's back as he carried her out of the event and into the cab line.
I always found Roberts to be a super storyteller and there is no doubt that his writings influenced me. One of the first short stories I wrote (1991?) was directly inspired by the plot of A Terrace in the Sun. The story turned up in an old folder while I was cleaning out my office. I wrote it almost 30 years ago and I want to reproduce it here - unedited. If you enjoy it, then get a copy of A Terrace in the Sun. You will enjoy it more!
The Clock Tower
As far back as he could remember he had been like this. Even when he had still been a writer, he would put off the moment of starting. And so it was now. He had written the note. The bottle of pills was open beside the whisky, and he had locked the door. Still, he paced around the room, sometimes supporting his broken body on chair backs or table tops.
The pain was getting worse. He was a penniless arthritic, written out and no use to anyone. It was right that he should end his own life. The qualities that had made him a successful writer had left him friendless and lonely. There was a knock on the door.
"Mr Barnes, sir. Mr Barnes?" It was the porter. "Are you at home, sir?"
Damn the man's eyes. Not now. Why couldn't he leave an old man alone to die in peace?
"There's a letter for you, sir."
Three flights of stairs were nothing to the porter, but the youngster knew how difficult they were for the cantankerous old man who lived on the top floor. The porter was persistent.
"Looks important, sir."
"Slip it under the door then," growled Nigel Barnes, "and leave me."
There was a pause and then the corner of an envelope appeared on the doormat.
"May be an old flame, sir." The young porter was attempting a joke, something to brighten Nigel's day. Nigel made no response. The young porter's footsteps disappeared down the stairs and Nigel snatched up the letter.
"An old flame? No chance of that, son," Nigel muttered and he tossed the envelope onto the table and beside the bottle of pills. His wife had been the last woman in his life and she had left years ago. And before that? There had not been many women in his life. Writing had been an all-consuming passion and his existence had been self-centred. But maybe, just once, the summer of 1939, there had been an earnest youth, a young German Jewess and the burning Italian sun. They had escaped the torrid Venetian heat and met at the bicycle-hire shop on the Lido. They rode off along the sea front to the end of the island where they waited for the boat for Pellestrina.
Lying in the shade of a cypress tree, he had told her of his burning ambition. "To become a writer, famous and respected." He rolled over. "Liked even."
She encouraged his grand ideas and sympathised with his passion. She felt his desire and he felt her misery when she told him of her wretched life, of what it meant to be a Jewess in Germany. What she wanted was to escape oppression and to know freedom. He understood her then and he recalled the compassion he had felt now. He recalled it with such intensity that he gasped. The feeling was in such stark contrast to the barren intellectual life he had led. He grabbed at the letter, tore it open and shook the contents onto his lap.
There were two enclosures. One had an American stamp on it and was addressed to him in neat handwriting. The other was from a company of London solicitors. What did they want now? Didn't they ever stop demanding money?
Nigel chuckled. There was nothing he could give now. He closed his eyes and felt again the compassion and the heat of the sunlight of the Venetian lagoon. How they had laughed and talked together. Pellestrina, the trattoria, sitting on the terrace in the stillness of the afternoon sun; yellow plaster walls, soft red roofs, green shutters closed to the sunlight, Corvo wine, the fishing boats and the hazy blue silhouette of Venice across the water.
He knew she had felt it too – those moments, like a thread making sense of their lives. Barely adult, they were no longer children, but at a crossroads they seized the present.
They took the last boat across the lagoon and in the morning she had said: "Please, I want that I have something to remember you, Nigel Barnes from Alston." And then she added: "I don't know where is Alston."
He had taken a postcard from his pocket. "This is a photograph of Alston. The clock tower. It was built to commemorate the dead of the Great War. Look - the hands of the clock have been stopped at 11.00 o'clock. My father and his brothers are all remembered there."
He had turned the card over and written something inspired by The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam on the back of it.
"I shall be your family," she had said but he never saw her again.
She went back to Germany and three months later the war had broken out. He supposed she were dead. Nigel opened his eyes. Outside it was pouring down. He sliced open the letter from the solicitors. It concerned the last will and testament of a Mrs Patterson now deceased of Jacksonville Carolina. It appeared that the late Mrs Patterson had named him as the recipient of the larger part of her fortune.
Nigel blinked. There must be some mistake. He had never known anyone by the name of Patterson. He muttered angrily at this disturbance. They were going to hound him to the grave; well, so be it.
Mrs Patterson, the letter went on, had married wealthy art dealer Rudi Patterson. On his death his wealth had passed to her but on her death in a road accident several months earlier and having no family of her own, Mrs Patterson had left almost everything to Nigel. He was urged to telephone Klein Cohen and partners as soon as possible. Klein Cohen had also been instructed to pass on a letter from Mrs Patterson to Mr Barnes and the epistle was enclosed therein.
Nigel leaned forward painfully and picked up the envelope. He did not recognise the handwriting. This must be a cruel joke. Had he offended someone so much that they should want to play such a trick? Maybe it was a fan; or maybe just a case of mistaken identity. He had never been to America, he had never known many Americans and as far as he knew, his books had never been popular there. Nigel pushed his finger under the sticky flap and ripped it open. Slipping his hand inside, he pulled out a sheet of paper and he unfolded it. There were just a few words on it, the second half of a sentence. Nigel was alternately confused and disappointed, but then something stirred in his memory and he frowned.
"And in the track of a hundred thousand years out of the heart of dust, hope sprang again Like greenness."
It was The Ruba'iyat!
Nigel fumbled for the envelope, slipped his hands inside but something fell out and landed on the floor beside him. As he bent sideways to pick it up, Nigel felt such a pain in his back that he slumped back in his chair, moaning. He knew what the object was and he remembered now what he had written on the back of it.
He dropped to his knees and carefully leaned sideways. The postcard was worn and tattered now but he could still make out the clock tower at Alston, built to commemorate the fallen. Flipping the card over he read his lines written fifty years earlier.
...still the end of the affair will be your departure. It is a dream I will dream all my life...
For a second Nigel held the card tightly to his chest, his head bowed. Painfully he got to his feet.
She was a bit sentimental even then, but this? Christ! With three claps of his hands Nigel screwed up the postcard and lobbed it through the open window.
How much money were they talking about here? Nigel made towards the telephone. He would have to call Klein and Cohen immediately.
Robert John Goddard 1992
Of course, the only wrong choice, perhaps, is not making one. Anyway, who cares whether or not I go to Nuremberg, visit Zeppelin Field and stand on the podium on which Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis stood while presiding over the rallies held there between 1923 and 1938? Actually, I don't have doubts about doing this but it is worth reflecting on why it is that some visitors are shy of standing on the Hitler podium. Such reflections can find their way into novels. Should we whitewash history and recall only the good bits? This, it seems to me, is the crux of the matter and a rich source of inspiration for writers.
For example, should we judge past events and historical figures by our current liberal standards or should we try and judge them in the context of their times? Why is it that we want our historical and heroic figures to be, somehow, perfect, anyway? Most people I have met or read about have flaws. Nobody is perfect. Lincoln was a racist. Churchill was a complex and flawed character as were Drake, Raleigh, Nelson, Mandela and Mother Teresa, But why do we need these heroes in the first place?
Perhaps the answer is because they help us define our own ideals and, in turn, these ideals (courage and honour, for example) define us. The hero comes to symbolize the qualities we would like to have. For instance, a person who chooses Robert E Lee as a hero might have a very different sense of what human excellence is than someone who chooses, say, Napoleon or JFK. But there is no doubt that these people - like all of us - were flawed.
It seems to me - but I am not unsympathetic to some arguments to the contrary - that taking down statues or destroying sites, like the Nazi rally sites, for example, does little more than bury history. After all, history is of full of moments in which humanity was lost and we should not forget these moments. In fact, they can be used as part of a conversation about the human condition and form the backbone of novels and films. Good versus evil, prejudice, love and hate, right and wrong, kindness and cruelty are all major themes of artistic work and should and will remain so. One of my favourite themes for novels is history. Can it repeat itself? What can we learn from it? Do we ever escape from it?
Actually, I am off to Nuremberg tomorrow and will reflect in greater depth while standing on the Hitler podium. I am not worried about being tempted in some way to worship the Fuehrer! But it may be worth a few moments reflection on the need to remember what we humans can be capable of if we are not careful.
At first, The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton (below) does not appear to be a novel about war. Appearances notwithstanding, it is a novel about WW2 but the war is revealed from a different perspective. The year is 1943, but there are no descriptions of combat, of troop movements, or of battles. Nonetheless, for the inhabitants of Thames Lockton (based, apparently, on Henley) "...conditions were those of intense war, intense winter and intense black-out in the month of December."
The novel begins with the London train arriving in Thames Lockton "...up against buffers...and it hissed furiously. That hiss, in the blackness of the station, might have been the sound of the crouching monster's last, exhausted, people-expelling breath in this riverside outpost of its daily influence...or it might, tonight, merely have been the engine hissing through its teeth against the cold." And the passengers were, "... a small army of home-seekers, in full attack, rushing towards the dim black-out light - like moonlight gone bad - above the ticket collector."
"Moonlight gone bad" - I like that.
For the occupants of the boarding house "Rosamund Tea Rooms" the war means blackouts, rationing, shortages, newsreels, propaganda and many other minor inconveniences and it is a reminder, if we need reminding, that suffering is relative. Terrible things were going on in Europe, (e.g. concentration camps, Stalingrad) but for the inhabitants of our guest house on the Thames, events in Europe are so far away that they are difficult to engage with. War and its sufferings were restricted to their immediate environment and to the here and now. Furthermore, the people did not know, as we now know, that 1943 was a turning point in he war, that 1944 would see an invasion of Europe and that war would end in May 1945.
Hamilton is not a name known to many readers today. Although his work was acclaimed in his lifetime, he was virtually forgotten by the 1960s, his writing thrown into the shadows, perhaps, by others, for example: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. Perhaps the reason for his relative obscurity is that he likes to break the rules. He changes the narrative point of view several times in this book and he does not refrain from making authorial intrusion when he thinks it appropriate. Further, the book does not fit easily
into any other literary style or movement. To me, the book seemed entirely original.
Hamilton refers to his main character as Miss Roach. Although this formality creates an emotional distance between the reader and the character, it adds weight to her solitude and helps the reader better understand the title of the book. Miss Roach is, after all, a slave to her solitude. And so, perhaps, was Hamilton himself. He had followed in his father's footsteps and become an alcoholic. He died of this at the age of 58 in 1962. The theme of fathers and sons has always interested me and it is one theme, amongst others, in my novel, Feeling the Distance.
Hamilton ends his own novel on an upbeat note and with a reminder to us, if needed, that this is essentially a novel about how war is experienced by those living through it. Miss Roach is in Claridge's and decides to take a bath.
"Then Miss Roach, knowing nothing of the future, knowing nothing of the February blitz shortly to descend on London, knowing nothing of flying bombs, knowing nothing of rockets, of Normandy, of Arnhem, of the Ardennes bulge, of Berlin, of the Atom Bomb, knowing nothing and caring very little, got into her bath and lingered in it a long while."
And just before she goes to sleep she whispers to herself:
"God help us, God help all of us, every one, all of us."
Sometimes a piece of music strikes a chord - if I may put it that way. This morning, on a whim, I played extracts from the operetta Das Land des Laechelns or, in English, The Land of smiles. Written by Franz Lehar, it was first performed in 1929. The operetta concerns the relationship between the Austrian Countess Lisa and a Chinese prince. Despite warnings from family and friends, Lisa marries her prince and goes with him to China. It is not long before she realises that the Chinese world and the Austrian world are simply not compatible. This incompatibility is compounded by homesickness and both of these conspire to prevent the two from sharing a future and Lisa eventually returns to her homeland.
Das Land des Laechelns was one of Lehár's later works. Its title refers to the supposed Chinese custom of smiling, whatever happens in life. In fact, the leading character, Prince Sou-Chong, sings early in the show, Immer nur lächeln or "Always smiling" thus respecting the rule of his culture.
It struck me, while listening to the extracts this morning, how relevant the theme is today. Given that I am British and living in Germany, this is, perhaps, not surprising but the theme of integration could inspire a novel. Hemingway touched on the theme in his novel The Sun also Rises as did Orwell in Burmese Days and Pietro di Donato in Christ in Concrete.
What does integration look like anyway? Can adults change their values to conform to the norms and social rules of the host country? For example, Germans tend to value directness and clarity as a conversational style. British innuendo, indirectness and politeness don't really cut the mustard here. I am aware of this, but even after 10 years living in Germany, I simply cannot get used to the German conversational style. Frankly, I am no sure I want to. I find it rude. On the other hand, Germans often ask me why I don't say what I mean. To be honest, they have a good point! I could mention a host of other differences to which I cannot or do not want to adapt.
My point is that for most receiving countries, integration means, essentially, that the new arrivals adapt to the rules and norms and behaviour of the hosts. In other words, integration means that refugees, for example, eventually become indistinguishable from the natives. This, in my opinion, will not happen any time soon. Even when/if it does, there is no guarantee that the children and grandchildren of the refugees are safe. The problem for the Jews in 1930s Germany was just that they were so fully integrated into German society. In other words, their full integration became a problem for them. And I wonder how the grandchildren of Italian and German immigrants felt when they were interned on the Isle of Man for the duration of WW2. They probably saw themselves as British.
Herein lies the answer, at least a theoretical one. Integration must be a 2-way process. And, perhaps, integration is the wrong word, anyway. Perhaps the answer lies in an acceptance of otherness. It is rather like a marriage. We should not get married and expect our partners to change their values to ours. That will never work. Acceptance of difference, and a willingness to learn from difference is the only way forward if the relationship is to develop. It applied to Countess Lisa and to the Chinese prince in Das Land des Laechelns and it applies to me and to anyone else who lives in another culture.
One day, one hot and sunny day, when Roddy was 6 years old and learning to read, write and spell at school, the bailiffs came and dismantled his life forever. Later in his career, when he had already written several novels, Roddy understood it was not the bailiffs who had dismantled his life but what his mother had said. It was probably a throw-away comment, the sort of comment that any mother might make after being evicted from her home and having 3 children to take care of. But what he remembered was his mother's tone of voice, a voice normally so full of confidence, a voice on which you could always depend. But there it was, that hot and sunny and blue afternoon, spelling out his name and changing him forever.
"What am I going to do about R-O-D-D-Y?"
What was so special about him that his mother had deemed it necessary to protect him from her concern? Did his mother not know he could spell? What was so normal about his brother and sister? They had clearly posed no such problems and had already been packed off to some haven and out of the reach of the bailiffs' violations. He - the peculiar R-O-D-D-Y - was clearly different, a bit odd, perhaps, and someone who needed special care and protection.
This feeling was reinforced some months later when his best friend told him his mother had commented that: "Roddy was one of those strange people who liked to take long walks alone."
Twaddle! At least, that is what Roddy the adult knew now. He had always liked to be alone with his thoughts. He loved to dissect every conversation and scene he had heard or seen. He lost himself in creating possibilities about next week, next year and wondering about this, and ruminating on that. He loved to analyse and to live in his introverted world, to be receptive to ideas that other people did not seem to care about.
But Roddy the adult also knew that "introverted" was often considered as less desirable than "extroverted." Nonetheless, Roddy was comfortable with his ruminations, his solitude and he loved to consider the lives of others. He certainly did not think of himself as lonely. Alone, yes. he needed to be alone in order to write. In the beginning, Roddy came to believe that "loneliness" and "special" went hand in hand and were both normal parts of a writer's life. Later, about the time he wrote his third novel, he was having doubts. "Loneliness" he thought, came from a sense of separation. And it stemmed not from writing, but from an individual's social and personal life.
He was not lonely.
On his walks he considered the books he was reading or the films he had seen and took the opportunity to think about the process that had gone into the making of the film or the writing of the book. He loved to consider the writer or the director and what had inspired them to take on that particular project or to tackle that particular theme in the first place. Then, he considered the "what-if" scenarios and alternative endings.
About the time he began writing his fifth novel, he questioned the idea of the strange, the abnormal and asked himself the question whether "normal" really existed. Roddy knew he could aspire to be average, but frankly, he knew, he did not want that. On the other hand, he had never had a need to be different just for the sake of it. He admired those who wore outrageous clothes and led a bizarre lifestyle but he knew that such a life was not for him. What was important was that he questioned norms and normality. It did no harm to ask question, he told himself - even at a royal wedding. Yes, when all the others in the room were howling and sniffling and blowing their noses, he considered it perfectly legitimate for him, that quiet and moderate person, to ask whether the whole show was just an poor attempt at myth-making.
There was nothing peculiar or strange about reflecting, was there?
He often found his mind wandering when having a conversation with others. He imagined the conversation as part of a bigger story and dived into the minds of imagined characters. He found that jumping into these diverse minds gave him an insight regarding the wants and needs of real people in his own life! In other words, he developed the ability to empathise.
He knew only too well that it had been a struggle to reconcile the feelings of another person with his own feelings. He found now, as an experienced novelist, that he was able to look at a situation from the perspective of others. By developing the ability to put himself in the shoes of others, he understood them. In this way, he eventually, understood the words that had haunted him since childhood: "What am I going to do about R-O-D-D-Y? and the comment: "Roddy was one of those strange people who liked to take long walks alone." Through standing in the place of others, he at last understood that neither the question nor the comment were a reflection on him but a reflection of the state of mind of the people who had uttered the words in the first place.
Is this short piece about me? No, but it might apply to me or any other writer for that matter who has been stimulated or formed by some throw-away comment that says more about the speaker than the listener. Therefore, I can say, in all honesty that:
This article is fictitious. Names, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
But only I could have written it.
... as a theme for a book, I mean. After all, we - the out-patients of a rehabilitation clinic near Frankfurt - enter the world of the sick every day. It is a place of crutches, swollen knees, massage, of sport, hip replacements and herniated discs. It is a world that is as much about state of mind as state of body. Then, at 3.00 we are spewed out of the door. We have been exercised, massaged, fed, and instructed to face the healthy world until the next morning. We are young and old, footballers and pensioners and we represent a wide range of social backgrounds and the attitudes and opinions that often accompany them. It seems to me that this rehabilitation clinic is a snapshot of German society in the spring of 2018 just before the advent of ... of what? We don't know what the future holds so I cannot say what this "what" is.
Thomas Mann had no such difficulties when he wrote his novel The Magic Mountain. Published in 1924, the novel is set in a tuberculosis clinic during the years immediately prior to WW1. Mann's world of cures, of petty rivalries, of pain and inhibited movement, of never-ending soup and exercises, of flirtations and rest cures is a classic, a comedy of manners and an allegory of pre-war Europe.
But what of my novel, if I decide to write it? I don't yet know how it fits into history. Are we living in the years immediately prior to Armageddon in the middle-east? Or perhaps these are the halcyon years before war with Korea or before the collapse of Capitalism. Perhaps I could write an allegory of a broken society. After all, we appear every day at the clinic in order to be cured or helped back to health so that we can integrate back into the normal life of health rather than the world of broken bodies and people defined by their bodily malfunction.
Perhaps I could portray these malfunctions not only as bodily but also as malfunctions of society before it takes action to cure itself. In the clinic we are restricted in movement and focused on getting better. Outside - in the real world - there is a place of health and beauty but also a place of divisions, war and terror, disease and unwanted refugees.
Perhaps, then, this could be the theme for my next novel. Europe on the verge of change or catastrophe in 2018. I already have the characters and the setting. The genre? The novel might kick-start the genre of "sick-lit" and attempt to make up for the relative absence of illness as a theme in novel writing.
A willingness to struggle against the odds and a belief that what you are doing is the right thing for you to do are characteristics that this blogger admires in people in general and in writers in particular. Take JK Rowling, for example. Unless, the story is simply image-creation, it seems her first Harry Potter book was rejected dozens of times before it was eventually accepted. Stephen King had a similar experience, receiving innumerable rejection slips before eventually having his first short story accepted. These writers never gave up!
Nor did several other inspirational non-writers I have already blogged about, for example: Elly Beinhorn and Bernd Rosemeyer http://www.thoughtsandwords.eu/blog/2017/08/inspirational-people-from-the-past-elly-beinhorn-and-bernd-rosemeyer.html
and Beate Uhse http://www.thoughtsandwords.eu/blog/2017/08/inspirational-people-beate-uhse.html
I recently came across another inspirational figure in John Goddard (no relation of mine).
Unlike most of us, John was one of those rare people who never gave up on his childhood dreams. In 194o, aged 15, he even wrote down these dreams. There were 127 of them and by the time he died in 2013, he had accomplished 120. His achieved dreams include: travelling down the Nile and the Amazon rivers, making a parachute jump, learning to ski, writing books, climbing the world's highest mountains, visiting the two poles and having children. Why did he do all these things? Perhaps it was clear to him that most adults let their lives slip past them. The most important thing was that he was brave enough not to make the same mistakes. Perhaps, unlike most of us, he had enough money to pursue his dreams. I don't know.
As a academic I met many young people who were torn between doing what their parents wanted and doing what they wanted to do. I remember one charming young man studying business at a German business school. His father wanted him to work in the family firm but the son wanted to be an actor, and he came to me for advice. Apparently, he had not mentioned his dream of becoming an actor to his father so I suggested that talked to his father about it. I met his father once and it seemed that he had his own dreams for his son. I don't know what the outcome was. I wonder if my young student was brave enough to strike out on his own.
I dreamed of being a writer when I was a child but I had to reach 40 before I dared to try... and I am still trying. This is not unusual. The Swiss novelist, Martin Suter said he dreamed of becoming a writer when he was a teenager. He was nearly 50 when he tried to live his dream. We are all different. F Scott Fitzgerald became famous aged 24 after publishing his first novel This Side of Paradise. He died aged 44. The Great Gatsby was well received on its release, but it was not until the 1950s and 1960s that it was recognised as one of the best American novels ever written. The message is simple. Never give up on your dreams. You are never too old. Be brave enough to live your dream and, embrace your one life to the full and never give up. There is hope for us yet!
I wonder if I can do this.
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, sooner or later, ultimately and in the long run, all things come to an end: youth, our school days, relationships, holidays, books and, indeed, life itself. We writers may well choose characters who we need to bump off at some point, and we may need to describe it accurately, fully and in a mood appropriate to the story. Sometimes famous last words can add a touch of lightness to an event which does not usually have a happy ending. We may doubt the accuracy of some of these "last" words, but, they can make us smile!
For example, during the American civil war (1861-1865) Major-General John Sedgwick made an unfortunate claim just before dying. This occurred as he was deploying his men to face the enemy, with Confederate snipers hindering their preparations. I do think that his statement, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" does sound a bit contrived, but they are, apparently, precisely what he said just before being shot. Whether they were his precise words or not is, apparently, debatable but they sound good, don't they?
Furthermore, most people will never have the opportunity to say what Max Baer (heavyweight boxer) reputedly said. He died in a hotel room, after calling the Front Desk and asking for a doctor. The concierge told him, "I will send up the hotel doctor." Apparently, Max Baer's last words were: "I believe I need a people doctor, not a hotel doctor."
And what of the idea that a person's life is replayed before his/her eyes, dreamed into existence before the final curtain? And you, at the expiring person's bedside, might watch the fluttering eyes and hear random words that tie you to some event in the individual's failing life. He/she might even make a confession and effectively activate the plot of your next book!
And think of this. Imagine you have been sentenced to death by lethal injection. Few people know when there are only a few minutes left in their lives. But you, sitting on death row, know when you will breathe your last, sometimes to the exact minute. Imagine that instead of being the victim, you are a witness to the execution itself. You see the warden give his signal and watch as the execution team inject lethal doses of two or three drugs into the victim. Apparently, death occurs anywhere from 5 to 18 minutes after the execution order is given. You watch the condemned man stare at the ceiling and, at the last moment, you see a tear emerge from the corner of his/her eye and roll down the cheek. Remorse perhaps? Certainly, the tear could be the spark that starts your story: after all, that superb film, Citizen Kane, starts with Kane uttering his last word: "Rosebud." This scene always sends a shiver down my spine.
I began this blog by asking the question, "I wonder if I can do this." Well, the answer is, "Yes, I just did it." That is, I managed to talk about departure from this world without mentioning the "d" word! Writers are often required to write about things of which they have no direct experience. Departure from this world is one of them. Being shot is another - at least in my case! I needed to do considerable research to find out what "being shot" felt like! The result of my research is in the following extract from Whispers in the Hearts of Men. The protagonist, Richard Chambers, is shielded by the actions of his old friend, Khalid (Mr Friendly). But only one of them comes out alive.
Mr Friendly was pulling at Richard's shirt, ripping it open and fumbling. And in that instant, the weight on Richard's chest was lifted, and he took, as if for the first time, a breath of cleansing air. Mr Friendly was then standing over him with Richard's bomb belt in his hand. There was more shouting, more footsteps and the sound of automatic gunfire. Mr Friendly stepped away from Richard and raised the belt into the air. There was more gunfire and Mr Friendly waved his hand in front of his face as though to brush away flies. He staggered. Something red exploded from his shoulder, his chest and stomach. He fell backwards and lay on his back with his legs extended and with one arm coiled around his neck. A hollow flapping sound came from the area of his chest and a pinkish foam was coming from his mouth while he gasped for air. Richard sprang to his feet. What was going on? Why was Mr Friendly lying here? He bent over to pick up the bomb belt. He had every intention of throwing it as far as he could but a strident command from behind stopped him. He turned round. What was going on? There was a line of kneeling soldiers. Their guns were raised and pointing at him.
He saw Abu Salim raise his revolver. He saw a flash, saw the gun jerk sideways, the smoke curling out of the barrel. He heard nothing. The bullet must have missed because he was still standing. But he was somehow rooted to the spot and incapable of moving a finger. He was feeling like a fool and wondering what everyone would think of him when he thought he had been struck by lightning and he began to vibrate from head to toe. Then he saw a bright light over him and the golden dome of a mosque rising from behind the city wall. It was topped with a crescent and it glinted in the sun. Richard reflected that it was the same sun that had warmed him thirty-five years earlier, but this time it was different. He was lying on his back and could not move. He saw the white city walls through the glass and he saw that the walls were confusing him with memories of similar walls, and the memories were clouded by the ghosts of people he had once known.

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EUSA Pharma Announces Acquisition of Global Rights to SYLVANT® (siltuximab) from Janssen Sciences Ireland UC for $115 Million
EUSA Pharma (EUSA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare disease, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, a subsidiary of Janssen R&D Ireland (Janssen) to acquire the global rights to SYLVANT® (siltuximab) for $115 million in cash. The transaction is subject to review under the United States Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the parties expect to close following completion of this regulatory review period and the mutual satisfaction of other remaining closing conditions.
SYLVANT® is approved in more than 40 countries worldwide, including the United States, the European Union, the Republic of Korea and Canada, for the treatment of idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (iMCD), a rare, life threatening and debilitating orphan condition. Idiopathic MCD is an inflammatory lymphoproliferative disorder, which causes the abnormal overgrowth of immune cells and shares many symptomatic and histological features with lymphoma.1 The disease can affect individuals at any age, with iMCD representing one-third to half of all multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD).2
"iMCD is a devastating disorder with few treatment options for patients, because the underlying mechanisms are so poorly understood," said David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Assistant Professor of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, and Associate Director, Patient Impact, Orphan Disease Center, at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
SYLVANT® is the only approved treatment for iMCD in the United States and Europe. It first received approval in the United States in 2014, with subsequent approvals occurring in a number of countries thereafter. Since then, SYLVANT® has achieved rapid revenue growth.
The approval of SYLVANT® was based on the MCD2001 study (NCT01024036); an international, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial including 79 subjects. More than one-third of subjects in the SYLVANT® arm had a durable tumour and symptomatic response to treatment plus best supportive care (BSC), compared to none of the subjects who received placebo plus BSC (34% versus 0% according to stringent criteria; 95% CI: 11.1, 54.8; p=0.0012).3
"The acquisition of SYLVANT ® represents a significant opportunity for EUSA Pharma. As the only approved treatment for this orphan condition, SYLVANT ® highlights the importance of ongoing research and development in areas where there are few patients yet high unmet medical needs", said Lee Morley, EUSA Pharma's Chief Executive Officer. "Following the recent divestment of our critical care portfolio, EUSA Pharma has transformed into a rapidly growing biopharmaceutical company focused solely on oncology and rare disease, backed by leading life science investor EW Healthcare Partners. SYLVANT ® is a perfect fit with our ambitious plans to roll out innovative biopharmaceutical treatments to serve the oncology and rare disease community worldwide.
Janssen discovered and developed SYLVANT® .
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Fajgenbaum has received research funding from Janssen for the ACCELERATE registry .
About EUSA Pharma
Founded in March 2015, EUSA Pharma is a world-class biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare disease. The company has commercial operations in the United States and Europe, and a wider distribution network in approximately 40 countries around the world. EUSA Pharma is led by an experienced management team with a strong record of building successful pharmaceutical companies, and is supported by significant funding raised from leading life science investor EW Healthcare Partners. For more information, please visit www.eusapharma.com .
About SYLVANT®
SYLVANT® (siltuximab) is a monoclonal antibody that blocks the action of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a multifunctional cytokine detected at elevated levels in patients with iMCD. Although the cause is unknown, the dysregulated production of IL-6 plays a key role in the pathophysiology of the disease. Idiopathic MCD is an inflammatory lymphoproliferative disorder that causes the abnormal overgrowth of immune cells and shares many symptomatic and histological features with lymphoma.1 Symptoms of this orphan condition include fever, night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, anaemia, flu-like symptoms, and multiple organ system failure.2,4 It is a challenge to diagnose iMCD accurately due to the paucity of specific diagnostic biomarkers and the significant overlap with other conditions such as lymphoma and autoimmune disorders, and patients are therefore often misdiagnosed.2 Idiopathic MCD is a disease that affects individuals at any age, representing one-third to one-half of all MCD cases.2 The five-year survival for MCD is approximately 65%5 , as a result, the disease represents a significant unmet clinical need. The limited number of therapeutic options for iMCD means that SYLVANT® is the only approved treatment in the United States and Europe. The approval of SYLVANT® was based on the MCD2001 study (NCT01024036); an international, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial including 79 subjects. More than one-third of subjects in the SYLVANT® arm had a durable tumour and symptomatic response to treatment plus best supportive care (BSC), compared to none of the patients who received placebo plus BSC (34% versus 0% according to stringent criteria; 95% CI: 11.1, 54.8; p=0.0012).3
This rare disease has an estimated incidence of up to 1,900 patients in the United States with a similar number in Europe, and consequently SYLVANT® benefits from Orphan Market Exclusivity in both the United States and Europe.
SYLVANT® has been studied in other indications such as Renal Cell Carcinoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Prostate Cancer & Type 1 Diabetes, and is undergoing active assessment in high-risk smouldering multiple myeloma. SYLVANT® has also been investigated as an immunosuppressive agent to alleviate symptoms of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a serious side effect of CAR-T cell therapies.6
These highlights do not include all the information needed to use SYLVANT® safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for SYLVANT7 . For more information visit https://www.sylvant.com/ .
Indications and Usage
SYLVANT is an interleukin-6 (IL-6) antagonist indicated for the treatment of patients with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative and human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) negative. Limitations of Use : SYLVANT was not studied in patients with MCD who are HIV positive or HHV-8 positive because SYLVANT did not bind to virally produced IL-6 in a nonclinical study.
Severe hypersensitivity reaction to siltuximab or any of the excipients in SYLVANT.
Warnings and Precautions
• Concurrent Active Severe Infections: Do not administer SYLVANT to patients with severe infections, monitor for infections, institute prompt treatment, and interrupt SYLVANT until resolution of infection.
• Vaccinations: Do not administer live vaccines because IL-6 inhibition may interfere with the normal immune response to new antigens.
• Infusion Related Reactions: Administer SYLVANT in a setting that provides resuscitation equipment, medication, and personnel trained to provide resuscitation.
• Gastrointestinal (GI) perforation: Promptly evaluate patients presenting with symptoms that may be associated or suggestive of GI perforation.
Adverse Reactions
The most common adverse reactions (>10% of patients) were rash, pruritus, upper respiratory tract infection, increased weight, and hyperuricemia.
1 American Cancer Society, Castleman's Disease. Last viewed June 2018. Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/castleman-disease/about/what-is-castleman-disease.html
2 Fajgenbaum et al (2017). International, evidence-based consensus diagnostic criteria for HHV-8-negative/idiopathic multicentric Castleman Disease. Blood; 23; 129(12): 1646-1657.
3 Van Rhee et al (2014). Siltiuximab for multicentric Castleman's disease: a randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Oncology; 15(9): 966-74.
4 Van Rhee et al (2010). Castleman Disease in the 21st Century: An update on diagnosis, assessment, and therapy. Clinical Advances in Hematology & Oncology; 8(7):486-98.
5 Dispenzieri et al (2012). The clinical spectrum of Castleman's disease. American Journal of Hematology; 87(11):997-1002
6 Chen et al (2016). Measuring IL-6 and sIL-6R in serum from patients treated with tocilizumab and/or siltuximab following CAR T cell therapy. Journal of Immunological Methods; 434:1-8.
7 http://www.janssenlabels.com/package-insert/product-monograph/prescribing-information/SYLVANT-pi.pdf (accessed 2nd July 2018)
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|Our Office and Warehouse will be closed from the 20th of August until the 3rd of September whilst we are at The National Airsoft Festival.
Orders placed after the 17th will not be shipped until we are back.
You will be able to place orders until the 23rd when our stock will be allocated for the event.
Our retail showroom will also be closed from the 17th until the 3rd of September. Sorry for any inconvenience.