The Death of Barry Humpries and ... Ivan Ilyich?📖🏥🌹

Barry Humphries stars as Bert Schnick in Shock Treatment

I can't help comparing Barry Humpries' accident to that of Tolstoy's fictional character Ivan IIyich fall in the novel 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', a novel I mentioned reading in my last post -

The Life and Death of August Strindberg?💀👻

"Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald last month, Humphries said he had been in “agony” since the initial incident occurred.
“It was the most ridiculous thing, like all domestic incidents are. I was reaching for a book, my foot got caught on a rug or something, and down I went,” Humphries said.
Ford told Sunrise viewers Humphries’ family had “serious concerns” about the entertainer’s health."

1001 Books I Must Read Before I Die ... Including the Banned Ones?📚📖🚫

Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Chapter 28 - From Beyond the Grave

Barry Humphries Passes Away in the Year of the Water Rabbit?🌊🐇🎕