The Fifth Revelation

This book started as an analysis of the heroic fallacy but became several other kinds of story. Primarily, the portrait of a protracted breakdown in the author Michael Scott's psychological and physical make-up, although he struggles hard not to go under, making his account more useful for others to read. It's neither pathological, nor self-indulgently self-pitying. There are useful accounts of coping strategies, particularly appropriate to age-related weakness and physical infirmity, espec...