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Illness as Metaphor
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1978
- Pages
- Pages 90
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Susan Sontag wrote that line while being treated for a breast cancer her doctors did not expect her to survive, and then kept herself out of the book entirely: not one sentence of confession, only the cold clean fury of the argument.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.
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