Oh, Shit... We Almost Forgot...
...that we'd picked up this little nugget of trivia during an excursion into Wikipedia.
It seems that in 1960, Anthony Burgess -- he of A Clockwork Orange and all that horrorshow stuff -- believing, erroneously, that he had a brain tumor, visited a neurologist. The sawbones was (and what a strange crossing of paths this was) Sir Roger Bannister, who just six years prior had been the first two-legged individual to run a sub-four minute mile.
As the Sunday Times notes,
According to ... Bannister, the story of the brain tumour was duff gen.
It seems that in 1960, Anthony Burgess -- he of A Clockwork Orange and all that horrorshow stuff -- believing, erroneously, that he had a brain tumor, visited a neurologist. The sawbones was (and what a strange crossing of paths this was) Sir Roger Bannister, who just six years prior had been the first two-legged individual to run a sub-four minute mile.
As the Sunday Times notes,
According to ... Bannister, the story of the brain tumour was duff gen.
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