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“ON THE CONTRARY” – by Des Kelly   Above, were the famous ‘last words’ of one Henric Ibsen, better known as the ‘Father of Realism’, but was, in reality, a Norwegian Playwright of many long years ago, who was also a famous Theatre Director and generally a well-educated Gentleman of his time. However, even people of this calibre have to die at sometime, and it was just the day prior to his death, when a friend came to see him in hospital and questioned a Nurse who was on duty as to how Henric was, and she answered that he was actually “getting better”. Henric, lying there, on his yet to be, deathbed, stuttered his own diagnosis in his three final words, “On the contrary”, which, in fact, was the correct diagnosis, because the reputed man breathed his last, on the following day. ...