Wish I Could Be There : Notes from a Phobic Life Condition:Well Read take advantage of strengths and

take advantage of strengths and compensate for weakness

Written in the tradition of Edmund Gosse

responsibility

the Venetian

Wish I Could Be There : Notes from a Phobic Life Condition:Well Read take advantage of strengths andAllen Shawn is afraid of many things, including heights, water, fields, parking lots, tunnels, and unknown roads. He avoids taking subways, using elevators, or crossing bridgesin short, he is agoraphobic, which means he is afraid of both public spaces and of any form of isolation. part memori, part scientific inquiry, part meditation, Wish I Could Be There is a brave book about the experience of being afraid. The search to understand his own crippling