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Following dinner at 179 Bath Street one night in September 1898, Joseph Conrad was entertained till one a.m. in a fashion which the novelist gleefully recounted in a letter to his friend Edward Garnett a few days later.1 All the best ‘celebrity’ records in the doctors private repertoire,2 all the wizardry of Röntgen rays were turned on. I stood in front of a fluorescent screen behind which Conrad and the Doctor contemplated my ribs and back-bone, the more opaque portions of my viscera, my Waterbury watch and what coins were in my pocket. ‘The rest of that promising youth was too diaphanous to be visible.’3
From The Brave Days: A Chronicle from the North (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1931) pp. 113–14.
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The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, ed. Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) vol. ii, pp. 94–5)
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Munro, N. (1990). Conrad’s X-ray. In: Ray, M. (eds) Joseph Conrad. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09387-8_24
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