Lately, my thoughts have turned to psychopaths.
Let me rephrase that lest I worry you. Myself and a friend were talking recently and somehow – I can’t remember how and perhaps that’s for the best – we got to talking about animals, which in turn led on to the topic of cruelty to animals.
I offered the opinion, quite commonly accepted, that it has often been found that young people who exhibit unnecessary cruelty (isn’t it all?) to animals have often grown to be sociopaths/psychopaths/seriously disturbed individuals.
Where am I going with this you might wonder? Continue reading
Tags: Disturbing Books, Freak Yourself Out a Little Bit, Havisham, Mental Illness, Psychiatry
In honour of World Book Night on the 5th March, and the fact that HaM are now poetry givers (we were sent the wrong book but this might open our haggard old minds anyway!) – we’re gifting Seamus Heaney’s New Selected Poems on the night – Havisham would like to share one of her favourite poems. Taken from Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, a quirky collection by poet Billy Collins, since her Mother read this poem to her many (many) years ago, she’s loved it and never forgotten it (or her cat).
