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Graves’ Disease?

by Theodore Dalrymple (April 2015)

Robert Graves (1895 – 1985) was one of the few men who was able to read his own obituary, albeit sixty-nine years before he actually died. He was badly injured in the First World War and left for dead; the Times published an obituary on this mistaken belief.  more>>>

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  1. On a lighter note: Graves at least had the good sense not to rush his next obituary.
    When Laura Riding (muse, poetess, and egotist) made a suicide attempt: ‘Graves, sympathetic but cautious,ran downstairs and ejected himself from a window on the third floor’.
    (From a Daily Telegraph book of obits).

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