Friday, 22 October 2021

Scarry

“It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.”   

       Elaine Scarry

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