![]() ![]() Surgery for the resultant haematoma – a swelling composed of blood effused into the connective tissues of the brain – left me with a cranial cavity the size of a healthy tangerine. ![]() Later, Calvino told me he heard " un tonfo" (a thud) before the line went dead. I had been on the phone to the Italian novelist Italo Calvino, whom I hoped to interview. In Hitchcock manner the phone was dangling off the hook handprints of blood covered the walls where I had tried to steady myself. ![]() "I'm afraid you've had an emergency brain operation." A blurred but familiar face came into focus as the English girl who shared my flat she had found me on the floor with my breathing irregular and speech garbled (in neurological terms, "aphasic"). I n 1984, after an unexplained fall, I woke up in a hospital in Rome acutely head-injured and disoriented. ![]()
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