Oliver Sacks
'fell in with the poet and motorcycle enthusiast, the late Thom Gunn. '
"Thom had a poem called 'The Wolf Boy', and he speaks of the duplicity of the wolf boy, between his social life and his nocturnal - that appealed to me very much, the more so as my middle name is Wolf, and so I could pretend to have a sort of lycanthropic part. I would be Dr Oliver Sacks, the intern, wearing a white coat in the daytime, and then, when the day was over, I would take off into the night, and go for long, crazy moonlit rides."
"Thom had a poem called 'The Wolf Boy', and he speaks of the duplicity of the wolf boy, between his social life and his nocturnal - that appealed to me very much, the more so as my middle name is Wolf, and so I could pretend to have a sort of lycanthropic part. I would be Dr Oliver Sacks, the intern, wearing a white coat in the daytime, and then, when the day was over, I would take off into the night, and go for long, crazy moonlit rides."
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