Naked City is a nickname for New York, and Spleen embodies the melancholia and inertia that come from feeling alienated in an urban environment.

Whatever it is you are struggling to remember, it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.

When I was going out a lot to these places, I was feeling a lot of anxiety and isolation because I was in a solitary phase in my life, and I decided to title my series Naked City Spleen, which references Charles Baudelaire.

Other diseases, such as sleeping sickness, transmitted by tsetse flies are fatal if untreated, as is leishmaniasis, if the parasites that cause it transmitted by tiny sandflies invade the liver and spleen. Again, the misery caused by these infections exceeds the burden of tuberculosis or malaria.