Mindful of the gap

Ken Aldous discusses a masterpiece by Michelangelo

Michelangelo's masterpiece | Photo: Photo: Wikimedia Commons {{PD-art}}

The operation had been a great success and I lay in bed motionless hour after hour, listening to the cacophony of sound all around – the nurses’ quickened footsteps rushing from one scenario to another, peels of laughter from visitors over some feeble joke.

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