THE WRITING ON THE WIND´S WALL by KEVIN ANDREW HESLOP
Marcelo Guimarães Lima I call a book “necessary” when it gives us knowledge of a kind that we didn’t even knew that we needed and could obtain, a book that clarifies issues and questions before we had the occasion to formulate them to ourselves in structured terms and with clear goals. This is such a book. Its subject touches the core of our all too human condition, and ramifies to different aspects of our ordinary and extra-ordinary experiences, of our mundane lives with its complementary dimensions of both relative and absolute tragedy and accomplishment, joy and misery, servitude and freedom. Where choice and destiny mirror each other, and are made into one asserting themselves as dependent and conflicting realities, and in this condition allowing for a third term to emerge, to present itself, from dichotomy to triad: the subject as the unredeemable mediator between life and death. Through a series of interviews, the book by Kevin Andrew Heslop maps important ongoing medical an...
