I stared up at a swirling fluorescent light snickering for three hours when I read this bit from a 2002 interview with Donna Tartt in The Guardian:
She describes how her great-grandfather, the great patriarch of her family, 'had a nearly unlimited faith in the magic of pharmacy' and has spent the last years of his life constantly dosed up with antibiotics, 'believing them to be a kind of healthful preventative, or nerve tonic.'
Wh-wh-whither Miss Tartt? Apparently penning a Daedalus and Icarus entry for the Canongate Myth Series. While 'tis sweet to have us a noveliste who avoids pathologically the status of publishing factory...just do the third of the five already!
2 comments:
Smooth move Grampaw Tarrt. In a similar vein, selfish eco-tourists from rich countries take antibiotics as prophylactic protection so that their expensive vacations are not spoiled. Their untreated stool harbors super-bugs that kill the poor.
Please stop giving away trade secrets.
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