By T.J.S. George
When you are a downside-up man condemned to horizontality in bed, you start imagining that the world is plotting against you. A butterfly on the window or an itch on the left hand are seen as messages meant for you. Across cultures, the butterfly is a symbol of hope indicating good days ahead, while a left-hand itch is a pointer to impending loss of money. (If it’s the right hand, you gain money.) All that is fine, but why should a man, just because he is tied to a bed, be taunted by butterflies and a left itch at the same time?
