Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: fire

  • Ignes Fatui of the neurotic mind

    Ashten R. Duncan Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States   Rocking in my vessel sturdy Upon the waters of a swamp so dirty, I am in the crow’s nest En route to my impending test. Ever since I was young, I have been given to the far-flung: Quiet panic of a possible foe, Wishes to never disturb…

  • Fighting the long defeat

    John Eberly Columbia, South Carolina, United States   Arcata Mill fire. May 1965. Photograph by Peter E. Palmquist (1936-2003). The Humboldt Room, Humboldt University Library Special Collections & The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Source “Together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.”1  — J. R. R. Tolkien…