Do you remember the Strauss song we used to sing? Once a year the dead live for one day. Oh come to me again as once in May.
Malcolm Lowry, the man who wrote the greatest novel of the post-WWII era, Under the Volcano, is 100 today. And even if suggesting a toast today seems a bit redundant given the circumstances of his life and death, may the memory of his drunken, genius ghost be for a blessing.