In reality, though, he ended up needing none of this support. The family decided on a great way to give back to those that did so much—a scholarship to the Good Samaritan Foundation to support education and training for nurses. The family hosted a ceremony at the hospital to mark the presentation of this scholarship and to reunite with the caregivers.
Over the coming months, Scott pursued therapy sessions with the same focus and perseverance he brought to training for an Ironman race. According to Scott, though, his biggest challenge has been being patient: With that said, he is still pursuing his goals with the same determination, focus and passion for giving back that he was known for prior to the accident.
In addition to joining the Good Samaritan Medical Center Foundation Board, Scott is on the path to getting back to full-time work, training for a future triathlon and volunteering at the Humane Society in Boulder. For now, though, Scott and his family are very much looking forward to spending Christmas together this year and reflecting on all that they have to be grateful for.
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A stroke occurs when a clot blocks the blood supply to the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, Sign up for our e-newsletter! Raven Hill [ sic ] and Mr. Wells and myself were asked to contribute; I was to do a series of horror stories. This obscure episode in late-Victorian publishing history is intriguing for a number of reasons. This was, after all, precisely the period during which the still fluid conceptual boundaries of emergent genre categories like science fiction, fantasy, and horror were beginning to be negotiated, shaped, and defined.
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But a more tantalizing question is this: For Wells, marked the beginning of fame; for Machen it meant something like the end of it, until the next century at any rate. But what if Machen had become, as it were, the H. The thirty-two-year-old author of a small body of inventively appalling tales, when pressed to produce more of the same, extruded a quartet of mediocrities, which he was entirely relieved to be able to consign to oblivion.
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But it is also moot because in the end Machen would indeed become something very like the H. Today he is widely accepted as a foundational figure—for some the foundational figure—in the development of modern horror fiction though it is worth noting that he would have strenuously, and with justice, resisted the idea that he was simply or solely a horror writer.
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If, however, Machen is now so recognized, it is less by popular acclaim than by aristocratic consensus. Machen is, as Dante said of Aristotle, a maestro di color che sanno —a master of those who know, a high priest retroactively canonized by later practitioners of his weird art. This process of canonization may be said to have begun with H. There are signs, however, that this may be changing. The first literary form specifically associated with the generation of extreme sensations of horror and terror—the gothic romance of the eighteenth century—was inextricably, constitutively bound up with a fascination for the past.
The same impulse consciously to revive archaic forms prompted Horace Walpole both to build an imitation medieval castle as his home and to pen the foundational gothic novel The Castle of Otranto ; his literary successors, from Clara Reeve and Ann Radcliffe to Edgar Allan Poe, wrote about ancestral curses, restless spirits, ancient houses, ruined abbeys. Many awoke in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to a new sense of wonder at the evidence of past ages to be found throughout Britain—Neolithic barrows, henge monuments, Roman ruins, Saxon artifacts—but lacked a framework for conceptualizing, or differentiating among, these historical periods with anything like the precision that we take for granted today.
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Things had changed, however, and radically, by the time Machen came to make his own distinctive contributions to the gothic tradition, and not only in the development of historiography. Above all, the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution—one that would spread very quickly from the confines of scientific circles to the larger culture—in the conceptualization of temporality itself, a revolution whose dramatic—for some, traumatic—impact is difficult to overstate.
The broad contours of this time revolution, while well known, are worth rehearsing briefly. And while subsequent theories of societal development, as well as discoveries by natural historians, might have chafed at times against this compressed chronology, it was not until the nineteenth-century emergence of geology as a science that it was seriously challenged—and, in rather short order, demolished.