University of Virginia Library

Neurophysiology

For a while he mourned and
moped, his wife dead, his life's
work nearly over, but he soon
grew tired of his melancholy
and began to do something he
had never done before.

He began to write. Not
scientific treatises on
neurophysiology, but poetry
and prose about life, and love,
and being human. His stories,
satires and essays quickly piled
up and at seventy-nine years
old he decided he had
something to say and wanted
to be read. After several
publishers rejected The Time
Concertina as "not sell-able,"
Ernst Gellhorn, with all the
vigor of a twenty year old,
published the book himself. We
can be thankful, for the
sixty-five page Concertina gives
us a happy glimpse of man as
seen through the owl-like eyes
of an eighty-year old sage.