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On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1926
Pages
Pages 35

Consider, Woolf begins, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view. Then consider that illness has never taken it's place beside love and battle and jealousy among the great subjects of literature.

It becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.
On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf

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