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Mr. Brick

With Child

Wesley Dickson

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HISTORIC NOTE #1: with this chapter in the story, I am making a large departure from the historic record. In 1897, Marie Curie gave birth to her first daughter, Irene. She did not miscarry, as I have depicted in this story. In our reality, Irene Curie went on to become--with her husband Frédéric Joliot--one half of the second most successful husband-wife scientific team in history. For many reasons, I didn't want to include Marie's children in my story. I meant to just conveniently "ignore" them; then, the concept of this episode came to me. As I envisioned it, it brought a tear to my eye, so I figured it must be a worthwhile addition to the story. A bit of tragedy.
HISTORIC NOTE #2: In actuality, the Curies were rather poor (in my story, they have some $$ and a house--we'll get to that later). The only real luxury that Marie afforded herself was that she always kept fresh flowers in the house. With my story's rural setting, she can pick them herself. Marie got pregnant last episode, in Spring, and her miscarriage is occurring in September. Thus, I made sure the flowers on "page 2" are actual wildflowers available in France in September: The white ones are leucanthemposis alpina and the violet ones are ivy-leaved cyclamen.
HISTORIC NOTE #3: Before depicting Pierre with a stethoscope on "page 3," I had to check on this. And, yes, it turns out that the stethoscope was first invented in the early part of the nineteenth century by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec and later developed by Arthur Leared and George Cammann into something more similar to what we have today. By the 1890s and early 1900s, stethoscopes were fairly common.

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Mr. Brick

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~ a Zen historical romance ~
(told from the perspective of a brick)

24 episodes