Strength and Disability

He appears to embrace Edmund Wilson’s argument in “The Wound and the Bow” that “superior strength” is “inseparable from disability” and disaster of various kinds.

A review of Lives of the Novelists contains this gem, which should launch me on a study of Wilson. I firmly believe and I’ve been amazed that I think a stroke has actually made me stronger in many ways because I’ve worked harder and more seriously at relearning how to do things.