ELAINE SCARRY DESCRIBES pain as an adversary to community. “Whatever pain achieves,” she writes, “it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language.” As metaphor, the pain of disease marks an alienation from otherwise “healthy” standards of expression. But one disease in particular has been said to […]
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