![]() ![]() Perowne looks him in the eye and diagnoses Huntington's disease. ![]() A car brushes past him and breaks off his wing mirror. How complicated life can be, he thinks, when you think so deeply and so philosophically and are yet so happy. Henry can see the case both for and against the invasion of Iraq. ![]() The streets are blocked because of the anti-war march. He drives towards his weekly squash match with Strauss. He loves her now as much as the day his dexterity saved her from blindness more than 20 years ago. Rosalind welcomes him and they make love passionately. What strange tricks the mind can play, he thinks. He switches on the news to find there was no terrorist incident and that the plane has landed safely. Perowne is as proud of Theo, who is already at just 18 one of the world's leading blues guitarists, as he is of his daughter Daisy, the foremost young poet of her generation, who is returning home from Paris this evening for the first time in six months. He tiptoes downstairs where his son Theo is drinking a cup of tea. ![]()
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