There is unconscious comedy, as, desperately overburdened, he accepts more and more additional work, lecturing incessantly, becoming a governor of the BBC.
The couple also wrote several other works, lectured, and advised business and political leaders.
Besant plunged vigorously into theosophical work, lecturing and writing widely.
In 1889 he wrote his most original work, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites.
Since his release, he has thrown himself into community work – lecturing, art therapy, grief counselling and violence prevention.
Since 1996, he has been a popular member of the marketing faculty at City University of Hong Kong, while traveling frequently to the mainland for consulting work, lectures and research.
The format of this year's Harkness Dance Festival at the 92nd Street Y requires choreographers to discuss their work, lecture-demonstration style, before the dancers perform with lights and costumes.
As more physicians take to the pen, professional conferences have sprouted to bring them together for readings of their work, lectures and workshops on the rewards and pitfalls of being a doctor-writer.
He tells me at the end that I mustn't make him sound bitter or defensive – he has the book, lots of offers of work, lecturing and oodles of money to soften the blow.
Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1904 for his 1897 work, "Lectures on the Work of the Principal Digestive Gland," which summarized his research findings.
