| Show Brain Specialist Says Top Authors Often off off Beam LONDON LONbON-A ON-A ON A London brain specialist specialist has haa declared that great authors authors to to say lay the least least are are sometimes sometimes some some- t times off the beam This analysis was made In an article in the British medical Jour not nat The author Is Dr Russell W. W Drain Brain On the doctors doctor's list of writers who have shown some mental menial aberrations aberrations aber rations rAtion were some of ot the great names name of at English literature Bos Bose Bosewell well Bunyan Burns Dickens Dicken Johnson Lamb Ruskin Shelley Sheley and Tennyson Some were Insane Dr Brain Drain Drains s said ld in the sense that they could be certified as such and placed in Institutions Others while not I ready for the asylum were classy tied fled as u manic depressives alco alco- alcoholics holies holics drug addicts schizophrenics or Just plain nuts The doctor sal said Dickens' Dickens A Tale of Two Cities bears marks of the authors author's preoccupation with violence and cruelty and anti described de scribed this feature as liS a form of 0 I masochism finding pleasure In pain suffered by ones one's self seW Oliver Twist on the other hand was helped along by Dick Dickens Dickens' ens' ens hardening of ot the arteries the doctor believes Summing up his case generally Brain said The genius of literature has I higher Intelligence more Intense and differentiated feelings a better better bet ter memory and a greater capaci capacity ty for words than the rest of us These presumably depend upon a quantitatively richer organization tion of his nervous system lie He also has dynamic quality which often seems to raise even his madness to a higher power |
