Catchin' up post 2: The Norwood Builder, 1950, G

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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
Author: tweedisgood
Title: 1950


The doctors now say it is tobacco, and not my old friend asthma, that has robbed me of the breath even to rise from my bed. Well, I have had a long, full life, and I had a cigarette once from a man without whom I should be long dead and disgraced.

Perhaps, there is always a price to pay.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very clever - without that cigarette there may not have been a tale to tell.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Just so. This was triggered by the large number of ex-smokers with COPD I see in hospitals and the community...so mostly I think cigarettes=bad. However...

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

So glad you got a chance to catch up a bit with us! Your 60s are always so lush and intriguing. A piece set in 1950? Unexpected and as full of punch as ever. Nice.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, getting there. I reckoned I'd give John Hector MacFarlane a good long innings :-)

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that was very evocative!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Odd lines jump out at one, and lo, there's a little story.