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is like a journey into a far country in that it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

An illness is like a journey into a far country... it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision

is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health. Instead we ought to come to nature's aid with intellect.

a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

is able to sensitize man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt)

is, along with misery and imperfection, a backdoor giving one backdoor escapes from enduring habits.

Enduring habits I hate. . . Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

is an already existent dual-citizenship where we constantly resist going to the 'kingdom of the sick' with its attendant pain and shame.

Sontag defines illness as an already existent dual-citizenship where we constantly resist going to the 'kingdom of the sick' with its attendant pain and shame.' (net)

is, in contrast to disease, defined culturally as how individuals and groups perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disabilities.

how the sick person and the members of the family or wider social network perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disability', he also notes 'when we speak of illness, we must include the patient's judgment on how best to cope with the distress and with the practical problems in daily living it creates' (1988:3-4).

is not just about suffering the loss of physical and/or mental integrity. To be ill is to inhabit a state of unbelonging, to be pushed to the margins, shamed, silenced.

short bouts of illness oblige all of us 'at least for a spell, to identity ourselves as citizens of that other place' (3) To be ill for Sontag, then, is not simply to suffer the loss of physical and/or mental integrity... it is also to inhabit a state of unbelonging, in the margins, on the outside.

is often associated wily-nily with the idea that one had somehow brought it on themselves.

She notes the peculiar reversal that 'With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer), the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease-because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.' Sontag says that the clearest and most truthful way of thinking about diseases is without recourse to metaphor.' (WIKI)

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