We live by simple stories. X has a stroke. X recovers; or doesn’t. But we live inside more complicated stories. Recovering from a stroke is a long haul; I still have an almost useless left arm and walk like a wildly intoxicated sailor. In my mid-fifties, my stroke has been a special excursion ticket into old age — socks and toenails a bewildering distance away, walking sticks with minds of their own — that kind of thing.
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Andrew Marr’s A Short Book on Drawing is published by Quadrille. He is also a former editor of the Independent, and returned to the BBC show that bears his name in September.
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