Anthony has told me that he felt these silences were healing too, a chance for him to regress, to be looked after. The deepening quiet was a sign of Anthony’s deepening trust. It may be that his silences were also a way of rehearsing the moment of his death, but most of all, they were something we went through together. And in doing so, Anthony found that he could more easily bear the idea of his death, accept the silence, because he felt himself alive in the mind of another.
