A journey to nature . 88. CHAPTER VIII THE CONVALESCENCE OF A CRACKED HEART I HAVE tried to tell how I was frightened intomy vacation by a physical warning, and by theDoctor who took it up and added to it. Hecalled it the disease of civilization, and said thetrouble was that it worked unseen at the centre,so that you never suspected its ravages until youcollapsed suddenly. He held out a single plankof rescue, and I ran over it with amazing alacrityinto the wild woods where I could escape fromcivilization for a year. Fortunately for me, myDoctor was a rational man, one of those rare doc-tors wh
A journey to nature . 88. CHAPTER VIII THE CONVALESCENCE OF A CRACKED HEART I HAVE tried to tell how I was frightened intomy vacation by a physical warning, and by theDoctor who took it up and added to it. Hecalled it the disease of civilization, and said thetrouble was that it worked unseen at the centre,so that you never suspected its ravages until youcollapsed suddenly. He held out a single plankof rescue, and I ran over it with amazing alacrityinto the wild woods where I could escape fromcivilization for a year. Fortunately for me, myDoctor was a rational man, one of those rare doc-tors who do not weigh life in an apothecarysscales, or insist that you can cut every domain ofit with a knife. He told me that my E stringwas a little weak (the Doctor plays the violin, ordid in his younger days), and was screwed up tootight. Of course, he said, it is going to snapunless you let the rest of the instrument down toa lower key. In a word, you must get out of theorchestra. 89 A JOURNEY TO NATURE If there is anything
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