How to Talk About Pain, Joanna Bourke, New York Times
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LONDON — IN 1926, Virginia Woolf published an essay on pain, “On Being Ill.” Isn’t it extraordinary, she observed, that pain does not rank with “love, battle and jealousy” among the most important themes in literature. She lamented the “poverty of the language of pain.” Every schoolgirl who falls in love “has Shakespeare, Donne, Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.”
, mis viis mind Virginia Woolfi (ei saa tast ikka ümber) essee endani – On Being Ill
--- literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear ---
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