C29 TWENTY NINE

Of Mighty Opposites

DEREK

'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes

Between the pass and fell incensèd points

Of mighty opposites.

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

MOVEMENT TO MY right pulled me out of my fever-induced dreams. The cloak someone had dressed me in clung to my wet skin, soaked through as my fever broke. Stretching tore at bandaged wounds that felt tight