title: Virtuoso: Story of John Ogdon
author: Brenda Lucas Ogdon
description: After 10 years as a concert pianist, John Ogdon suffered a mental breakdown. His wife, in telling the story, seeks to defy society's taboo about mental illness and to help dispel some of the ignorance and fear surrounding it.
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  # V. V.'s Eyes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry Sydnor Harrison
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  I. Two Houses, with a great Gulf between; of V.
  
  
  Vivian, M.D., and what he thought of John the Baptist.
  
  
  II. Two Persons of More Importance, and why they
  
  
  went to the Beach in October; Miss Carlisle Heth, and how she met an
  
  
  unwelcome swain at Sea; how this Swain could swim enough for one.
  
  
  III. How Carlisle screamed, when the Boat upset, or
  
  
  else didn't, as the Case might be; also of Mrs. Heth, who went down Six
  
  
  Floors to nail Falsehoods, etc.
  
  
  IV. Mr. Hugo Canning, of the well-known
  
  
  Pursuing-Sex; how the Great Young Man pursued Miss Heth to a
  
  
  Summer-house, and what stopped his Thundering Feet.
  
  
  V. Dialogue between V. Vivian, of the Slums, and
  
  
  Mr. Heth's Daughter (or his Niece); what the lovely Hun saw in the Mr.
  
  
  Vivian's eyes, just before he asked God to pity her.
  
  
  VI. Of Carlisle's Bewilderme