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“... achievement by defining its origins and thereby showing how it has transcended them. If Percy Grainger transcended much more than the boundaries of good taste, it would be difficult to tell from The Farthest North of Humanness. The philistine reaction to flagellation and sexual experiment was exactly what ...”

“... Rest’. As the visitors included celebrities such as John D. Rockefeller Jr, Upton Sinclair, Percy Grainger and the explorer Roald Amundsen, becoming a patient at the sanitarium held a social as well as a therapeutic attraction. Kellogg fostered this aspect of Battle Creek life by organising a constant round of concerts, lectures and uplifting ...”

“... turn to recommend him The Green Hat, South Wind, or M.G. Lewis’s The Monk. Then there was the Percy Grainger Museum, which housed an enormous collection of letters to and from the composer. A disdainful young female archivist cataloguing them was once observed holding an envelope at arm’s length and extracting from it ‘a fibrous tangle of pubic ...”

“... per cent of tabetics are men). The Treponema dealt harshly with Delius, but, helped by Percy Grainger, Philip Heseltine and Eric Fenby, he went on composing. Spes syphilitica, perhaps. In a sense he was lucky: syphilis did not carry him off in his prime. Consider the 19th-century Scottish surgeon Robert Liston, ‘tall . . . powerful ...”