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* Griffin took Oxsoralen, a drug sometimes administered to victims of vitiligo, a disease that produces milk-white patches on the skin. The drug makes the skin extraordinarily sensitive to ultraviolet rays; under sunlamp or sunlight exposure, the skin turns a deep brown. * From Hughes's poem "Dream Variations."
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