“Who is this Ian Stevenson?” you may well be asking at this moment and that is a very interesting question about a very interesting man, for he is a man of all seasons, a man from that glowing cultural node of all Greatest Britain, Leicestershire, English in his Britishness and British in his Leicestershirity but the question of who he is cannot fully be fully answered fully before a different question is asked and then subsequently answered about this man first which is this one: how is this man? “Very well, thank you” he may say but also how he is is this: born in Paris on a summer’s day, 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution to a dashing young army officer and his beautiful hairdresser bride, Ian’s life began in firey turmoil. Both parents were beheaded on the guillotine by the Jacobins for counter-revolutionary activities the moment Ian’s bloodied, fragile, stupid body dripped from the womb. …
His biography just about explains everything you need to know.
Via: 7inch
Website: Ian Stevenson
