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Anne Carson • Men in the Off Hours
When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
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how much pain and suffering must be endured before the intimate and precious part of ourselves becomes unmoored and floats away, making us incapable of normal human intercourse?
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The French philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil wrote that to understand affliction one must accept our total human vulnerability. “I may lose at any moment,” she wrote, “through the play of circumstance over which I have no control, anything whatsoever I possess, including those things which are so intimately mine that I consider them as b
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While he was dying of prostate cancer, Broyard wrote a memoir, Intoxicated by My Illness. In one table-turning chapter, “The Patient Examines the Doctor,” Broyard writes: What do I want in a doctor? I would say that I want one who is a close reader of illness and a good critic of medicine. [ . . . ] I see no reason or need for my doctor to love me—
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