Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

Greene’s remarkable account of suicide as the satisfaction theory of atonement describes Dr. Travis as earnest and reverent as a priest. “…he treated the body with great respect; when he rapped the chest he did it slowly, carefully, with his ear bowed close as though he really expected somebody or something to rap back.” Scobie, like all of us, was waiting for someone to rap back.



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