Everything in Its Right Place
When a misplaced sense of familiarity gives rise to delusions of place. The post Everything in Its Right Place appeared first on Nautilus.
t the very end of his life, Henry James lost his sense of place. The renowned author of novels such as and was also celebrated for his travelogues and evocative portraits of Europe. But after a pair of strokes, James began to insist he was not in London, but somewhere else: California, or Cork, Ireland, or at his mansion on the South coast of England. At times, he seemed to believe he was in several places at once: “This place I find myself is the strangest mixture of Edinburgh and Dublin and New York and some other place that I don’t know,” he wrote. In what later came to be known as his Napoleonic fragments, James also dictated to his secretary two letters
