SiNGAPORE - While writing his latest novel The Porpoise, British author Mark Haddon gave a character a heart attack.
It is described in great detail - the calcified lumps, the collapse of the heart's four chambers into "one wrecked vessel of twitching flesh in which the blood pools and squelches".
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