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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Mar 8, 2018

‘She was my last dog’

A few of passages that I have selected from “Waiting for the Last Bus” by Richard Holloway:

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Categories: Ageing, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: ageing, antisyzygy, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Carmichael, death, dying, Mavisbank, Richard Holloway, Two Cultures, Waiting for the last bus

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