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In a preface written in 1816, Coleridge blamed a man from Porlock for breaking his concentration in 1798 when he was composing Kubla Kahn. The editor of QJM must bear a similar, but inverted, burden of guiltI had agreed with him that this series should run for 3 years exactly, or 36 columns. However, one contribution was not chased up by the editor, knowing that, like Coleridge, I was then under the influence of opiates. I had, in fact, proposed to finish Kubla Kahn, as a relief to you all from developmental biology, risk assessment, fish and the other odd issues that had caught my fancy in the last years. But now we will never know the details of what the Damsel did with the Dulcimer.
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