Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-27 | Page 5 | Advantage of Writing in Bed

Advantages of Writing in Bed It Is a curious fact that posterity has made made- madea a hero out of Robert Rober Louis Stevenson not because ne De alwa's always al always al- al ways was wrote well but lut because h hoften he often wrote in In bed b d comments Clayton Hamilton In On the Trail of Stevenson To write well Is a great achievement never toi to write badly is indeed an intimation of immortality im mortality an mortality a art accomplishment so o orare tare rare and noble as as' as to call for for the erection of monuments and the dedication dedi- dedi cation of ot shrines but when a man I has done so big a thing as this i It seems imp impertinent and trivial fo forthe for forthe the public public- to consider whether h lie he did it In bed or out ut of bedAs bed bedAs As a matter of or fact Louis al alays always al- al ays ways worl worked ed most and worked besIn best bes bestIn In those seasons when he was waif confined confined con con- fined to his bed bell Whenever hen ever he was wa well ho played ed and talked talkea Whenever When When- ever he ho was 11 ill ill he ho worked and anti wrote Although he might have hav bled to death at any moment If he had haJ ruptured an important artery arter his hia malady was seldom painful anc and was rarely permitted t to depress hi his spirits His mind was more buoyant buoyant buoyant buoy buoy- ant more active and ore eager When he was confined to his bed than wh when n he ho was permitted to roam abroad In public For one thing his mind was of necessity disen disen- disengaged caged from the tho normal Interruption 0 of many matters tatters of minor interest and was flun flung bac back Into an enormous enor enor- mOlls vacancy of oC leisure which It I render habitable was called upon to For another b by Its own activity thing this disassociating process was never Impeded by the int n of pain