Spine

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>John Patrick Higgins has been told he's spineless for as long as he can remember. But if that's true why is he obliged to leave an armchair with the nervous trepidation of someone dipping a toe into a piranha tank?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>John has a bad back. His skeleton's turned on him like an angry dog denied ironically a bone.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>As he embarks on a six-week course of Pilates to iron out his kinks-years of Freudian analysis having not even touched the sides-he finds himself in a world of Lycra-clad pensioners farting in Warrior Pose. During this long-teased vertebral correction he finds the time to save a dog's life admire a woman backflipping off a rock into the sea embark on a one-sided feud with a man in an off-licence and drunkenly attempt to explain what kissing a ghost might be like. Based it should be said on very little empirical evidence.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Will he become lithe and lissom again? Or face an uncertain future of walk-in baths and just leaving anything he's dropped on the floor because life is now very definitely too short for any sort of bending. Touching his toes? Maybe his toes don't </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>want</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> to be touched. Did you ever think of that?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Spine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> tingly and chilly in turn is illustrated by the author and like his previous book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Teeth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> features a glossary of useful terms though as his definitions are equally baffling the glossary may require a further glossary.</span></p><p></p>