Chris Deerin: Drastic steps bring to mind the values of mercy and care

EVEN in daylight, even under the spring sunshine with the flowers sprouting around, the steps have a sort of doomy gothic foreboding about them. They are vertiginously steep, dank and undrying, the kind of cobwebbed passageway that might at its higher end deliver you to the creaking door of a vampire’s castle and at its lower into the bowels of a crypt, where, one imagines, it soon becomes clear that not all the coffin lids are screwed on tight. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16179184.Chris_Deerin__Drastic_steps_bring_to_mind_the_values_of_mercy_and_care/?ref=rss