Nor is it any accident that those certain people come to the sessions, the ones who did come, just as it is no accident that Philip's mother is also a bedridden arthritic, just as Ruburt's mother is.
That concept came to Wallace in a literal fever dream as he lay bedridden with malaria during part of his eight-year trip around the Malay Archipelago.
During this time when she was bedridden, her father helped to set up a specially made easel to hang over her bed, so that she could spend her days painting.