prescriptions

 finished the 1996 book, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House.  Not sure I read it very well.  It is strange, strangely fairy tale -esque and anti-tale in every way.  Prescribing 

write nothing but love stories from now on Love and adventure   After all what kind of storytelling do we have nowadays---not for the marketplace, royal court, middle class, not even addressed to an individual---"merely for the person to whom the story happened, himself?"  179

final address to raven  you can sreech and squawk and do otherwise   Taxham an almost forgotten place

the pharmacist forever changed  but did I get the change?  I missed the change, didn't I?  

ok, weak as I am, I am cheating majorly ---

He is transformed in the following ways:

• From Estrangement to Connection: Initially, the pharmacist is a lonely, estranged figure who finds comfort in solitude and hallucinogenic mushrooms. The trauma forces him to leave his isolated existence and engage with the world in a new way.
• A Shift in Perception: Following the head injury, the narrative of his life changes from "ironic description" to a collection of "sensual impressions, observations and reflections".
• The Journey as "The Driver": He embarks on a quest through the Alps with a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet, experiences in which he is beaten and stalked, which leads to a, "final series of bizarre, cathartic events".
• Renewal: Although he is eventually taken back to his pharmacy and his former life, he is fundamentally altered by the surreal, often frightening experience. 

He moves from a state of silent, isolated existence to one that has undergone a profound, almost spiritual, ordeal.